‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ Review: A Post-War Study of the Nazis’ ‘Angel of Death’ Lacks Dimension

‘The Disappearance of Jose Mengele’ Review: An Artfully Directed, Intellectually Vacuous Holocaust-Ploitation Flick

The new feature from Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov ('Leto') follows the infamous Nazi doctor during the decades he spent evading capture in South America.

‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ Review: A Post-War Study of the Nazis’ ‘Angel of Death’ Lacks Dimension

With “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele,” Russian dissident Kirill Serebrennikov trains his lens once more on the fault-lines of democracy, and the ease with which fascism takes hold and cross-pollinates. However, the black-and-white-shot post-World War II biopic contains more ideas than it can handle, between a central character study — led by an impeccable August Diehl — mixed with a globe-trotting tale of evasion, along with numerous hints t…

Very different, the films of Carla Simón and Kirill Serebrennikov, and the first steps as director of Scarlett Johansson, all question through the image the question of history and the transmission of his memory.

Selected at the 78th Cannes Film Festival for his film about Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, Russian filmmaker in exile Kirill Serebrennikov defended in an interview with the AFP the need to "continue to speak about Auschwitz" to recall this "of which humanity is capable".

'The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele' Review: A Distasteful Nazi Biopic

All through the impressively crafted and more and more exasperating 135 minutes that make up Kirill Serebrennikov’s postwar Nazi-in-hiding chronicle, The Disappearance of Josef Menegele, the identical query retains coming to thoughts: Why am I watching this? Actually, for these curious to understand how the infamous Auschwitz physician, aka the “Angel of Loss of life,” eked out the ultimate many years of his life in numerous South American nat…

Adapted from the book “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele”, by French Olivier Guez, the drama directed by Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, focuses on the years of anonymity in South America