For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of thousands of works of art that were meticulously catalogued.
Direction
Thiriat lets archival footage do the screaming.
Writing
Turns dry catalog numbers into human tragedies.
Production
Meticulous reconstruction of Goering's obsessive inventory system.
Director
Laurence Thiriat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Goering's 'shopping list' approach to plunder—complete with handwritten ratings and acquisition codes—reveals how genocide was bureaucratized into inventory management.
The 2018 German 'Provenance Research' law that finally pressured museums to investigate their collections? This film helped make that conversation unavoidable.
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