Cast
Denis Lavant
Narrator (voice)
Crew
Stan Neumann
Director
Stan Neumann
Executive Producer
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Language Does Not Lie
Documentary
History
Language Does Not Lie
La langue ne ment pas
2004
1:19
★ 7.3
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Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when Hitler came to power to the war's end, he kept a journal paying attention to the Nazis' use of words. This film takes the end of 1945 as its vantage point, with a narrator looking back as if Klemperer reads from his journal. He examines the use of simple words like "folk," "eternal," and "to live." Interspersed are personal photographs, newsreel footage of Reich leaders and of life in Germany then, and a few other narrative devices. Although he's dispassionate, Klemperer's fear and dread resonate