Who Killed Walter Benjamin… (2005)
Quién mató a Walter Benjamin…
… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.
Philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German Jew, flees Germany in 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's definitive rise to power. On September 26, 1940, he dies in Portbou, a small village on the French-Spanish border. The unexplained end of a man who managed to avoid a horrible fate just to face death in very mysterious circumstances.
- Date of release
- 2005-10-06
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Director
- David Mauas
Casting
- Juan Ramón Capella — Himself
- Félix de Azúa — Himself
- Stéphane Hessel — Himself
- Dani Karavan — Himself
- Stéphane Mosès — Himself
- Gary Smith — Himself
- Rolf Tiedemann — Himself
- Patrick von zur Mühlen — Himself
- Bernd Witte — Himself
- Erdmut Wizisla — Himself
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