My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner (2007)

Directed by

Fern Levitt, Arnie Zipursky

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 05m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American man looks for his German grandfather and finds a secret diary written during the Nazi era. The documentary follows his journey to understand what the diary reveals.

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What happens

My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner is a 2007 documentary television film about an orphaned American who went in search of his German grandfather and discovered a secret diary written during the time of the Third Reich. The film is a production of Abella Entertainment Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, co-produced and co-directed by Arnie Zipursky and Fern Levitt, with executive co-producer Leonard Asper of CanWest Global. The film is distributed by CCI Releasing. The documentary was based on news stories in Germany and America about the Friedrich Kellner diary. Because the diary consists of ten notebooks written over a period of six years, it sometimes is referred to in the plural as "diaries." The documentary was produced for Canadian television and shown in prime time on Global Television Network. The film received a 2007 Creative Excellence Award from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles. A version of the documentary for libraries and schools has been produced by Chip Taylor Communications. This version has been renamed Anti-Nazi: My Opposition - The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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