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Courtesy of Focus Features
The film was directed by the late Luke Holland, who spent a decade interviewing everyday people who participated in Hitler s Third Reich.
Focus Features is teaming with Participant to release the late director Luke Holland s documentary
Final Account. Wednesday s announcement coincided with International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The film, which premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, will be released in U.S. theaters on May 21. Universal Pictures International will distribute the doc overseas, excluding Israel.
A decade in the making,
Final Account features never-before-seen interviews with the last living generation of everyday people who participated in Adolf Hitler s Third Reich. The doc raises timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians describe – in very different ways – their memories, perceptions and pe