Film

Human Remains

1998 · 30m · Documentary

IMDb

7.7

Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.

Eva Braun

Self (archive footage)

Francisco Franco

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

Mao Zedong

Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Leon Trotsky

Self (archive footage)

Paul von Hindenburg

Self (archive footage)

• Jay RosenblattDirector

Release date

March 21, 1998

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

30m

Genres

Documentary