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Who Killed Walter Benjamin…

"… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime."
2005
3

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.

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2005

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.


3

director
David Mauas
cast
Juan Ramón Capella, Félix de Azúa, Stéphane Hessel, Dani Karavan 
runtime
1 hr 13 mins

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