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Menschliches Versagen
HUMAN FAILURE
The expropriation of the German Jews benefitted virtually
every other German citizen.
It was not the Gestapo who invaded Jewish residences in
order to confiscate all assets – from bank accounts to the
last shirt – it was the German tax officials.
A bizarre competition evolved between bureaucrats as to
how one should organize the robbery of the Jews before
they were expelled or sent to the gas chambers.
Larger assets went to the tax offices, and the smaller assets
and goods were sold to friends and neighbors in public
auctions of “non-Aryan” property.
Many of the documents proving this expropriation were
lost or destroyed; the ones that remained were hidden
away.
A search for traces …
Genre History Category Documentary TV Year of Production
2008 Director Michael Verhoeven Screenplay
Michael Verhoeven, Luise Lindermair Director of Photography
Britta Becker, et al Editor Gabriele Kroeber Music by
World Sales
Menemsha Films and The National Centre for Jewish Film, Brandeis University
c/o Menemsha Films · Neil A. Friedman
213 Rose Avenue, 2nd Floor · Venice, CA 90291/USA
phone +1-310-452 1775 · fax +1-310-452 3740
email: neilf@menemshafilms.com · www.menemshafilms.com
Sami Hammi Producer Michael Verhoeven Production
Company Sentana Film/Munich, in co-production with WDR/
Cologne, BR/Munich, SWR/Baden-Baden Length 90 min
Format HDV, color, 16:9 Original Version German Subtitled
Version English Sound Technology Stereo TV Mix
Festival Screenings Jerusalem 2009 With backing from
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmstiftung NRW
Michael Verhoeven was born in 1938 in Berlin into an acting
and directing family. He studied Medicine in Berlin and Munich and
qualified as a doctor in 1969. He appeared as an actor on the stage
and screen in the early 50s and 60s and has been working as a
screenwriter, producer and director since 1967. His award-winning
films include: Dance of Death (Paarungen, 1968), O.K.
(1970), A Terrific Exit (Ein unheimlich starker Abgang,
1973), Sunday Children (Sonntagskinder, 1979), The
White Rose (Die weisse Rose, 1982), The Nasty Girl
(Das schreckliche Maedchen, 1989), My Mother’s
Courage (Mutters Courage, 1995), Zimmer mit Fruehstueck
(TV, 1999), Uncovering of a Marriage (Enthuellung
einer Ehe, TV, 2000), The Unknown Soldier – What
Did You Do in the War, Dad? (Der unbekannte Soldat,
2006), and Human Failure (Menschliches Versagen,
2008).
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