Director Fatih Akin does a wonderfully understated job of setting the innocence and the cruelty of childhood against the fall of fascism ...

Renowned documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls, who, along with his family, fled Nazi Germany as a child and spent his ...

Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning German-born filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” ...

The last day of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival saw a region-wide power outage — reportedly an act of sabotage — and a handful ...

It’s always hard to pick out the best titles out of a festival as richly multifaceted as Cannes. But out of the 40 features I ...

It's hard to imagine a less promising setup for a movie about a young boy's act ... if it weren't undertaken by a member of the Hitler Youth out of love for a mother who cannot shed her allegiance ...

Nouvelle Vague, part of the Cannes competition slate, is the ultimate inside-baseball making-of movie. But even more than ...

Hebrew school and middle school were where I learned about the murders of six million Jews during the Holocaust. It’s always ...

The recent furore over the movie Valkyrie, about the 1944 plot ... In 1933, he joined the Hitler Youth and rose quickly to the position of squad leader, in command of 150 boys.