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Where to Watch Who Killed Walter Benjamin… (2005)
… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.
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.
HistoryDocumentary 73 min
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Cast
- Juan Ramón Capella as Himself
- Félix de Azúa as Himself
- Stéphane Hessel as Himself
- Dani Karavan as Himself
- Stéphane Mosès as Himself