General Information

Author/Creator

Mauas, David, director.

Language

Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese.

Published

Spain : Milagros Producciones, 2005.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (73 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_10000441

Contents/Summary

Summary

In September 1940, after seven years of exile, Walter Benjamin crosses the Pyrenees in a desperate attempt to escape the Nazis. According to the official version, Walter Benjamin did make it across the French-Spanish border successfully. But when he arrived in the Catalan town of Portbou, a sudden change in legislation impeded his entry into Spain and he was obliged to spend the night at a local hotel under the close vigilance of three guards, whose orders were to deport him the following morning. In utter despair, Benjamin took his own life, swallowing an overdose of morphine. The local doctor, however, declared it a natural death and Benjamin was given a Catholic burial in the municipal cemetery, under a wrong name. Did the doctor conceal some hidden cause of Benjamin´s death? Was there really a change of legislation? Was Walter Benjamin aware that Portbou was a pro-Franco town virtually occupied by the Nazis? This film reaches for answers among the suspicious circumstances of his death.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note

Verzio Film Festival Submission

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2297	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2297 (HU_OSA_10000441.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format