Human Remains (1998)
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.
- Date of release
- 1998-03-21
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (15)
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Jay Rosenblatt
Casting
- Eva Braun — Self (archive footage)
- Francisco Franco — Self (archive footage)
- Adolf Hitler — Self (archive footage)
- Vladimir Lenin — Self (archive footage)
- Mao Zedong — Self (archive footage)
- Benito Mussolini — Self (archive footage)
- Joseph Stalin — Self (archive footage)
- Leon Trotsky — Self (archive footage)
- Paul von Hindenburg — Self (archive footage)
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