Death is My Trade (1977)
- Original title
- Aus einem deutschen Leben
- Directed by
- Theodor Kotulla
- Genre
- drama film, biographical film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 7.7 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This German biographical drama follows the life of a Nazi officer who becomes the commandant of a concentration camp. It shows key episodes of his career and his emotional detachment from the atrocities he commits.
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What happens
Death is My Trade (German: Aus einem deutschen Leben) is a 1977 German film, which is based on the script of director Theodor Kotulla, starring Götz George in the leading role. The script is based on the French novel La mort est mon métier by Robert Merle, which was published in 1952 (English edition: Death Is My Trade). Like the novel, the film is partly based on interrogation records of the trial against Rudolf Höß, SS-officer and commander of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, as well as on his autobiographical notes. He made these notes first during his time as a British POW, then, after he was extradited, as a Polish prisoner in 1946/47, before he was executed as a convicted war criminal. Instead of using the name Rudolf Höß, whose life was the model for the film, the pseudonym Franz Lang is used, in order that he remain anonymous. The real Rudolf Höß had gone into hiding allegedly working as a boatman after World War II using this pseudonym until he was unmasked and arrested in 1946. The film is divided into 14 different episodes, which describe fragmentary and important scenes of Franz Lang's life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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