Documentary visits high-command offspring in HITLER'S CHILDREN

The ultimate where-are-they-now investigation, or sins-of-the-fathers story?

March 6th, 2013 (NY, NY) – Film Movement, the distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films, announced today that the Israeli documentary HITLER’S CHILDREN will be released on DVD on April 2nd, 2013 in the United States and Canada. This powerful and mesmerizing film, about the descendants of top Nazi officials, chronicles their daily struggles against the reality of their ancestors’ pasts. HITLER’S CHILDREN is in German, English and Hebrew with English subtitles.

All Film Movement DVD releases include a short film—this month’s selection, KUN 65, is from director Tal Haim Yoffe. In this documentary, a painting found on the street leads the filmmaker on an inspirational journey from Israel to Budapest while revealing the fascinating personal history of the painter, a holocaust survivor.

The DVD will be available at Film Movement (www.filmmovement.com) and through major retailers such as Amazon, Netflix and Passion River Films.

Accolades for HITLER'S CHILDREN:
“As fascinating as it is provocative!” - Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International

“Compelling! Hitler's Children looks at the present in order to redefine the evil epoch of the past, and to find a hopeful future devoid of such hatred and destruction.” - Nick McCarthy, Slant Magazine

Synopsis:
Adolf Hitler did not have children, but what of the families of Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler and Hans Frank, to name a few? What is it like for the descendants of these top Nazi officials to deal with the legacy left behind by their notorious families? HITLER’S CHILDREN introduces us to the children, grandchildren and nieces and nephews of these infamous men. Among them Niklas Frank, son of Hans Frank and godson of Hitler, who despises his father’s past so much that he has spent his entire adult life researching and writing negatively about him, often touring around Germany to lecture against his father and the Nazi regime. And Bettina Göring, the great-niece of Hitler’s second in command, Hermann Göring, who lives in voluntary exile in Santa Fe, NM and together with her brother decided to get sterilized so as to not pass on the Göring name or blood.

These, and many others, discuss how they have coped with the fact that their last name alone immediately raises images of murder and genocide; and how they have reached a balance between the natural admiration and affection children feel towards their parents, and their innate revulsion of their crimes. Some have been more successful than others at achieving that balance, but each bares, for the first time, the scars that their legacy has left them.

Imbd lists HITLER'S CHILDREN as having a 59-minute run-time, while the this release lists it as 80 minutes in German, English and Hebrew with English subtitles, so apparently outtakes were added.

HITLER'S CHILDREN won the audience award at The Boston Jewish Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Warsaw International Film Festival.