Overview
- The film adapts Olivier Guez’s Renaudot-winning book to trace Josef Mengele’s postwar escape across South America.
- Kirill Serebrennikov says he places the camera in Mengele’s head to examine the banality and roots of evil.
- Shot mostly in black and white with a brief, violent color passage depicting Auschwitz crimes, the film seeks to force confrontation through shock.
- August Diehl’s lead performance draws notice for its chilling focus, with reviews describing the experience as intense and uncomfortable.
- The narrative includes a fraught exchange with Mengele’s son and recalls the Nazi doctor’s death in Brazil in 1979 without trial.