The most dangerous lie Hollywood almost sold you.
With the help of Hollywood, top Nazi Albert Speer tried to unscrupulously whitewash himself of his crimes in the 1970s. Speer gave long interviews to Hollywood author Jack Neuman and mimed the "good Nazi". After his release from 20 years in prison in Spandau, Hitler's former architect and armaments minister earned a lot of money with books about his time at the side of the dictator and his years in prison. However, a Hollywood feature film about his life was still missing. Speer received Neuman at his villa in Heidelberg.
Direction
von der Heyde lets Speer hang himself with his own words.
Editing
Brutal juxtapositions between Speer's charm and his crimes.
Director
Annette von der Heyde
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Speer's Spandau prison memoirs became global bestsellers, funding his comfortable Heidelberg retirement while he plotted his Hollywood redemption.
The documentary exposes how 1970s Hollywood's obsession with 'complex' Nazi characters nearly gave history's most efficient liar his final victory.
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