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Human Remains (1998)

Human Remains (1998)

Documentary
Release Date: 1998, March 21
Directors: Jay Rosenblatt
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco, Eva Braun, Vladimir Lenin, Paul von Hindenburg

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.