Who Killed Walter Benjamin…

6.0 Quién mató a Walter Benjamin…

2005, 1 h 13 m

Documentary, History

… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.

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.