Who Killed Walter Benjamin…
- Movies
- 2005-10-06
- ES
- Released
- 1h 13m
- ES
- Documentary - History
Production
Milagros Producciones, Medianimación, TV3, Nik Media
Tagline
… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.
Storyline
Philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German Jew, flees Germany in 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's definitive rise to power. On September 26, 1940, he dies in Portbou, a small village on the French-Spanish border. The unexplained end of a man who managed to avoid a horrible fate just to face death in very mysterious circumstances.
