3764 - O CONTADOR DE AUSCHWITZ (2018)
O CONTADOR DE AUSCHWITZ (ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Canadá,
2018) - Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the
last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder
of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The documentary has all the elements of a great project
including solid footage - some going back to the Holocaust itself, clever title
devices that summarize history as they juxtapose the footage, and the inclusion
of all sides of the debate. The debate, of course, is whether Grönig should be
on trial due to his advanced age plus his past efforts to fight against the
denial of the Holocaust in the 1990s. Netflix.
