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Oscar -winning Marcel Overs died. His grandson Andreas Benjamin Severt, who was told by the news of his death. Hollywood Observer “He died peacefully” at home in southern France. He was 97 years old.
Ophulus made many documentaries about the thorny ethical problems that arise from the war. He made films about the Vichy regime in France, problems, Nuremberg trials and the Vietnam War. Sadness and compassion, His movie about Fishi collaborators in France did not appear in the country that he filmed for 12 years after its completion. Pauline Kyle And invite her “One of the most demanding films ever.”
OPHULS was born in Frankfurt, in 1927. His family fled from Germany in 1933, then forced to flee Paris in 1940. Overols moved to Los Angeles in 1941, where he got his first taste in the cinema playing a member of Hitler’s youth in one of Frank Kabra. After the war, Ophuls returned to Europe. He made his first documentary, Munich or peace of our time, for German television.
Film Hotel station He won an Oscar for Best Documentary Film in 1988. The life of Klaus Barbie-which covers the forty-year-old was recorded between the end of World War II and Barbie trial in the end of crimes against humanity, and how America was protected from justice because interrogation techniques that are compatible with the Nazis were useful at that time. Roger Ebert And invite her “A man’s movie continues to convert after others want to move to more polite topics. It is a stubborn, angry, annoying, sarcastic attack on good morals, and I am happy that it was not impossible enough to make it.”
