Human Remains
- IMDb link: 0164053
- IMDb rating: 7.7 (506 votes) Search
- Genres: Short, Documentary
- Director: Jay Rosenblatt
- Cast: Eva Braun, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler and others
- Release date: 1 Jan 1998
- Release year: 1998
- Runtime: 30 minutes
- Country: United States, Denmark
- Keywords: reference to adolf hitler, german, dictator, fascist dictator, voiceover, european history, mao, italian, spanish, chinese
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Film clips of the 20th century's great dictators with narration in first person combine to form a fascinating portrait of power and evil.
We see a gravedigger's shovel at work. Then, we watch archival footage that, for the most part, is up close and personal scenes of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco, and Mao. In the background, a voice in German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Chinese speaks in the first person, narrating an autobiography; another voice gives a simultaneous translation in English. Often we see them with children or young women. They are braggarts. The editing is droll; the words and images combine to satiric effect.
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