Friedrich Paulus

Inspiré du best-seller de l’historien Joachim C. Fest, ouvrage de référence absolu, ce documentaire est uniquement composé d’images d’archives et d’un commentaire fidèle à l’oeuvre monumentale de Fest. Il permet de comprendre comment un homme a pu conduire un peuple à commettre l’irréparable et à plonger le monde dans l’horreur…

Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.