The Jewess and the Captain (1994)

Original title

Die Jüdin und der Hauptmann - Die Geschichte der Ilse Stein

Directed by

Ulf von Mechow

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the true romance between a Jewish teenager and a Nazi captain in the Minsk Ghetto. It uses interviews with the woman shortly before her death, old photographs, and secret KGB files to reveal what happened and the strange aftermath.

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What happens

The Jewess And The Captain is a 1994 documentary, directed by Ulf von Mechow about a Holocaust love affair between Ilse Stein, an eighteen-year-old Jewish girl, and Willi Schultz, the Nazi captain in charge of the Minsk Ghetto. After the Holocaust, Ilse Stein became a minor celebrity and the subject of two romance novels. The film conducts interviews with Ilse just before her death, reveals shocking archival photographs of her and Schultz, and raids the KGB's secret documents to piece together the facts of their romance and uncover a real-life love story with a bizarre twist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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