Human Remains (1998)

7.3/10 • 30 min • Documentary

Overview

Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.

Cast

Eva Braun

Self (archive footage)

Francisco Franco

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

Mao Zedong

Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Leon Trotsky

Self (archive footage)

Paul von Hindenburg

Self (archive footage)

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