"Josef Mengele was a Nazi physician who performed sadistic experiments on Jewish people at the Auschwitz death camp. After the war ended, the so-called "Angel of Death," who was gaining infamy for his murderous exploits in the name of science, managed to evade capture in Germany and escaped to Argentina with the help of former fellow members of the SS the Nazi regime's elite guard."
"This is the starting point for "The Disappearance of Josef Mengele," a film drama that details the war criminal's successful attempts to escape trial as he moves from Buenos Aires to Paraguay via Brazil. Directed by Russian filmmaker, theater director and Vladimir Putin critic Kirill Serebrennikov, the German-language film debuted in May at the Cannes Film Festival and is being released in cinemas across Germany this week."
""The Disappearance of Josef Mengele" begins in 1956 as the German war criminal is living in exile in Buenos Aires under the name Helmut Gregor. But Israeli secret service (Mossad) agents, West German officials and Nazi hunters are on his trail. Starring August Diehl ("Inglourious Basterds") in the title role, the film shows how money, connections and a chameleon-like talent for disguise helped one of the world's most wanted"
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele follows Nazi physician Josef Mengele as he evades postwar capture and lives under assumed identities in South America, moving from Buenos Aires through Brazil to Paraguay. The German-language drama, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov and starring August Diehl, draws on Olivier Guez's 2017 book. The narrative shows how money, networks, disguises and sympathetic collaborators, including elements in Argentina, enabled thousands of fugitives to avoid justice. Israeli Mossad agents, West German officials and Nazi hunters pursue Mengele. The film presents a bleak portrait of ideological extremism, its roots and consequences, and the challenge of accountability after mass atrocity.
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