Language Does Not Lie (2004)
• November 15th, 2004 • 1h 19min
Documentary, History
Overview
Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when Hitler came to power to the war's end, he kept a journal paying attention to the Nazis' use of words. This film takes the end of 1945 as its vantage point, with a narrator looking back as if Klemperer reads from his journal. He examines the use of simple words like "folk," "eternal," and "to live." Interspersed are personal photographs, newsreel footage of Reich leaders and of life in Germany then, and a few other narrative devices. Although he's dispassionate, Klemperer's fear and dread resonate
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Fascism in Colour
Released on: 2006-01-01
Documentary, History
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
The Brave Class
Released on: 2017-06-02
Documentary
Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the word...
Chasing Voices: The Story of John Peabody Harrington
Released on: 2021-04-30
Documentary
For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, fra...
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Released on: 2007-05-10
Documentary
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
Code Name Lucy: Spies Against Nazis
Released on:
Documentary, War, TV Movie
The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish C...
The Language Master
Released on: 1997-03-23
Documentary
Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are mov...
The Dead Nation
Released on: 2017-08-25
Documentary
A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romania...
Murder in Malexander
Released on: 2001-05-24
Documentary, Crime
Depicts the controversial double police murder, involving neo-nazism and a theatre project by one of...
Who was Hitler
Released on: 2017-11-16
Documentary, History
Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...
Omegäng
Released on: 2024-01-19
Documentary
How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switze...
Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja
Released on: 2014-01-30
Documentary
"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and ...
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Released on: 2005-02-13
Drama, History
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
Released on: 2019-09-22
Documentary, History, TV Movie
An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...
Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
Released on: 2022-10-21
Documentary, TV Movie, History
Forbidden Films
Released on: 2014-03-06
Documentary, War, History
Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allie...
Berlin - Paris: Die Geschichte der Beate Klarsfeld
Released on: 2011-09-08
Documentary
With her slap of the Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in 1968, Beate Klarsfeld abruptly got k...
The Hiding Place
Released on: 1975-05-04
Drama, History
Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-...
Hitler's Junkies
Released on: 2015-12-11
Documentary, History, TV Movie
In Third Reich, the abuse of drugs made commanders and soldiers feel invincible. The Führer himself ...
100 Years of the UFA
Released on: 2017-08-28
Documentary, History, TV Movie
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...
Hanussen
Released on: 1988-05-20
Science Fiction, History, Drama, Fantasy
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in...