Hunting Down the Nazis
2007 · 86 min · ★ 7.3 · Documentary, History, War, TV Movie
For the first time, a film recounts the story of the long pursuit of Nazis in hiding from 1945 to the present day. Sixty years of investigations, set-backs trials and dramas, brought about principally by three extraordinary individuals—the Austrian Simon Wiesenthal, and the German-French couple, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.
Directed by Isabelle Clarke · Written by Isabelle Clarke
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