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Germany, 1939. At the outbreak of war, Hitler authorizes a programme of mass-murder targeting the nation's disabled people, transporting them from institutions to killing centres. Elise is a patient who sweeps the institution. She doesn't speak and staff assume she doesn't understand. But she watches everything. She watches buses full of patients leave and return empty. When it's her turn, she knows what's in store. Incarcerated, what hope can there be? Based on real events, this is the story of one woman's resistance, in the only way she could.

Director : Liz Crow

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 12

Language : English

Heredity in Man

A sort documentary film. Biologist Julian Huxley, brother of Brave New World author Aldous, gives a chilling insight into the discredited science of coercive eugenics. Huxley compares the genetics of families of 'defectives' who are institutionalised with those of successful actors (including John Gielgud) and the physically strong. He concludes that it would be better if disabled people were not born. Shortly after this film was made, Hitler authorised the mass murder of disabled Germans.

Director : J.v. Durden

Production Year : 1937

Duration : 15

Language : English

The German Doctor

Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodging house by the Nahuel Huapi lake. This model family reawakens his obsession with purity and perfection, in particular Lilith, a 12 year-old with a body too small for her age. Unaware of his true identity, they accept him as their first guest. They are all gradually won over by this charismatic man, by his elegant manners, his scientific knowledge and his money - until they discover they are living with one of the biggest criminals...

Director : Lucía Puenzo

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 93

Language : Spanish