Final Account

“Final Account is about today as much as yesterday, and that makes it perhaps the most urgent World War II documentary of them all. ”~Matthew Monagle, Austin Chronicle

Aroview: German documentary providing portraits of the last living generation of people to have participated in Hitler's Third Reich.

A valuable project over a decade in the making, which bravely explores themes of authority, conformity, complicity and national identity with people ranging from former SS members to civilians. Appraising their place in one of the greatest crimes in human history, the filmmakers question the role that memories and perceptions play in the way we reckon with our own behaviour, and grapples with the psychological mechanisms that lead to people to participating in mass murder. A chilling but important discussion of our history.

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