The Man Who Met the Trains (1989)
Der Mann an der Rampe
A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems it a triumph. Militaria dealers market all the components for a do-it-yourself SS officer. The film assembles on, piece by piece, from a price list: the complete Hauptsturmführer for 2,921 Deutschmarks, ready to meet the trains arriving at Auschwitz with the appropriate aluminium lurex armband at 45 Marks.
- Date of release
- 1989-09-01
- Runtime
- 12m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Gerhard Scheumann, Walter Heynowski
Casting
- Gerhard Scheumann — Narrator (voice)
- Walter Niklaus — Narrator (voice)
Recommended
- Directed by John Ford 1971 · ★ 7.0
- Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 2017 · ★ 6.4
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century 2019 · ★ 6.5
- 180° South 2010 · ★ 7.2
- Report 1967 · ★ 6.1
- Come See Me in the Good Light 2025 · ★ 7.1
- McQueen 2018 · ★ 7.4
- Sherman's March 1986 · ★ 6.3
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 · ★ 7.8
- A Toxic Love Story 2026 · ★ 6.4
- Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20 2022 · ★ 7.2
- S4: The Bob Lazar Story 2026 · ★ 8.4