Who Killed Walter Benjamin… (2005)
06/10/2005Documentary, History1j 13m
6.0/10
"… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime."
Sinopsis
Philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German Jew, flees Germany in 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's definitive rise to power. On September 26, 1940, he dies in Portbou, a small village on the French-Spanish border. The unexplained end of a man who managed to avoid a horrible fate just to face death in very mysterious circumstances.
