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Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers. Millions all across occupied Europe saw his films, the most perfidious of which was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film JEW SÜSS, required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years as that of Joseph Goebbels’ top director, Leni Riefenstahl. Harlan was also the only artist from the Nazi era to be charged with war crimes. With never-before-seen archival footage, unearthed film excerpts, rare home movies and new interviews, HARLAN: IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS is indeed a searing portrait of the controversial filmmaker and an eye-opening examination of World War II film history. But it also shows how Veit Harlan’s family (especially the youngest generation) struggles even today with the dark myth of his artistic immorality. It’s the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present, one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.
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Complicity with crimes against humanity, and vicarious or inherited guilt, are eloquently agonized over by the descendants of the accused. A moral parallel is hypothesized at the end: If children of victims have an obligation to pass their stories on so they do not become forgotten, don't children of perpetrators have that obligation, too? The answer is left to us to mull.