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Hangmen
Original title: Henker - Der Tod hat ein Gesicht
documentary - DE, 2001, color, 82 min.
biography
Director Jens Becker
Script Jens Becker, Gunnar Dedio Camera Aicke Fricke, Axel Schneppat Music Andreas Hoge
Cast
Fernand Meyssonnier (Frankreich), Hermann Lorenz (DDR), Reuf Ibrisagic (Sarajevo), Joseph Malta (Amerikanischer Henker in Deutschland), György Pradlik (Ungarn), Ionel Boeru (Rumänien), Paul Sakowski (Henker im Konzentrationslager)
Voices
Petra Kelling, Wolfgang Condrus, Günter Naumann, Roland Possehl, Christian Rode, Herbert Schmidtke, Horst Westphal
Synopsis
They are the only ones who are allowed to kill. Each in their own manner. Always at dawn. They execute a legally rendered judgement. Hangmen. Now they show their faces. Talk about their lives. Explain their “handiwork”. Five years of investigating and filming resulted in this documentary. The last hangmen of Germany, the GDR, France, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Romania faced the camera. They are living witnesses to the end of the 800 year old European history of the death penalty. An intensive insight into the life of the executers with biographical background and personal stories.
