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Name: Final Account
Released: 2021-5-21
Cast: Margarete Schwarz

Final Account

PG-13
1h 33m
2021

93%

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Final Account is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with - in very different ways - their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.

Director:

Luke Holland

Producer:

John Battsek, Luke Holland, Riete Oord

Cast:

Margarete Schwarz

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: Final Account falls shy of the definitive statement suggested by its title, but the belated reckoning on display remains chillingly valuable viewing.

Reviews

Cinegarage

Erick Estrada

While not visually elaborated, it is certain and precise in looking at the faces of these people who ended up in the SS [Schutzstaffel]... [Full review in Spanish] [Full review in Spanish]

Holland condenses twelve years of work and nearly 300 interviews into a 90 minute study of how passivity can open the door to great evil and how denial of one’s complicity can take many different forms.

Final Account is a masterpiece that puts Luke Holland in the same league as the great documentarian of the Holocaust's aftermath, Marcel Ophüls. It's unmissable.

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Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Hilary A White

As with Claude Lanzmann's seminal Shoah (1985), Final Account cracks open the heart of darkness using little more than a camera and a microphone.

Holland's film is an invaluable testament.

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