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| A creepy B/W still of the villainous subject below a manipulated version of the American flag with swastikas mixed in with the stars make up this poster for Kevin Macdonald's My Enemy's Enemy |
Klaus Barbie during World War II became known as the 'Butcher of Lyon' due to his extensive torture and execution crimes against Jews and others in his path, including countless children. But after the war he was not persecuted - but instead hired by the CIA.
My Enemy's Enemy is a terrific historical/biographical/war documentary by great Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (Chaplin's Goliath (1996)).
It is a deeply upsetting and disgusting story, which shows how the logic of tyranny and sadism function far into the ranks of the West, - along with clandestine veneration for Nazism and fascism. In order to combat Communism, the Americans hired a Nazi war criminal, who for decades since then continued using his violent skills, especially in South America, mostly in Bolivia, - to further damages for the people there.
The span of sources and material is deeply impressive, and Macdonald lets diverging points of view assert themselves without inserting himself personally in this gloomy, worrying, - and fascinating piece of 20th century history.
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Box office: 198k $
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[My Enemy's Enemy premiered 31 August (Telluride Film Festival, USA) and runs 87 minutes. The film only had a film festival screening in North America. Its 3 biggest markets were France with 175k $ (88.4 %), Belgium with 11k $ (5.6%) and Taiwan with 3k $ (1.5 %). Macdonald returned with State of Play (2009). 619 IMDb users have given My Enemy's Enemy a 7.4/10 average rating.]
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