Who Killed Walter Benjamin…

Original title: Quién mató a Walter Benjamin…

"… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime."

2005 ★ 6.0 73 min IMDb Spanish David Mauas

Overview

Philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German Jew, flees Germany in 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's definitive rise to power. On September 26, 1940, he dies in Portbou, a small village on the French-Spanish border. The unexplained end of a man who managed to avoid a horrible fate just to face death in very mysterious circumstances.

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