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Hotel Terminus: The Life & Times of Klaus Barbie

Klaus Barbie (Actor), Marcel Ophuls (Actor), Marcel OPhuls (Director) Rated:
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From Marcel Ophuls comes this brilliant examination of the Nazi officer Klaus Barbie, tracing his life from his time as Gestape chief during World War II to his trial for crimes against humanity.

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Another monumental Ophuls work, HOTEL TERMINUS emerges ultimately not as a study of one person, place or event, but as a contemplation of the human condition. --Vincent Canby, The New York Times

A real-life detective story. Entertaining and engrossing. --Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

Ophuls' film is an attempt to hold on to him [Barbie], to retrieve him from forgetfulness. The light Ophuls shines on his subject fixes him forever in our minds. --Hal Hinson, Washington Post

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.6 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Marcel OPhuls
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Dolby
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 4 hours and 27 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 16, 2010
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Klaus Barbie, Marcel Ophuls, Serge Klarsfeld, Beate Klarsfeld, Jacques Verges
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Icarus Films
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003YKVGMO
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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5.0 out of 5 stars The ugly face of Europe. A classic documentary at last on DVD
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2011
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This is one of those documentaries that make history, as few do, because of their interviewing real victims and protagonists of the facts. The facts are basically the Holocaust, the tortures, killings and persecutions of Jews of France by German Nazis and its French anonymous collaborators... everything focused on one person, the notorious Gestapo agent Klaus Barbie.

Remember that 1000 people massacred doesn't reach as much to the heart as one person tortured, with a name and last name to identify. Well this documentary does this job. We, the audience, can hardly appreciate -sitting in the comfort of our free Western societies, decades now away from those terrible times- the value of a document like this one. The film starts at Barbie's birthplace, family circle, etc. and moves, in four hours, to his trial at old age in France. Like a detective story it traces his life through family members, victims, people who met him and people who just might have been his neighbors, knowingly or not. What I mean is, regardless of the film being wonderfully directed and entertaining, this film has a value that makes it priceless. Here is a picture of society, made up of all kinds of people (it is France and Germany, but it is rather about the Homo Sapiens), and it shows how all humans fail to live up to what we expect of others than ourselves. If not guilty of some heinous crime, we might fail because of collaboration; if not by collaboration, then by omission of help; and if not by this, then maybe by throwing the stone at someone whose shoes we are not in. We all fall short.

This documentary is priceless. We are liable to do it again, right here today, in the West. We are already, in fact: don't we ignore the crimes that dictatorial regimes and Muslim loonies perpetrate to thousands every single day, specially to women? We are not the Resistance; we are collaborators.
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Gene Cisco
5.0 out of 5 stars Vy Only Follow Orders, except in Argentina
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2014
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"Hotel Terminus" took the Best Foreign Picture award when it first came out, probably because of its generational impact with the participants alive. It deserves the award and should be viewed by those who want to know about war effects on both sides. I am glad that you can see a French film that utilizes the hotel and other known spots of resistance fighters, some seen in this documentary. One multi-Resistance fighter, Michel Thomas (an alias) seen for a couple minutes late in the documentary has his war story in print ("Test of Courage") and it should be read by others. He's the gentleman who perfected his language theory while working for the Nazis (briefly) then the Italians, then the French teaching himself in 3 weeks to learn the language while escaping death several times. (a protegee, Dustin Hoffman) The other war survivors from both sides tell their stories, sometimes in a surreal fashion. What makes this documentary a bit out-of-date is the numerous stories that have come out from courageous Germans since who risked it all to save Jews inside Germany, which almost makes up for the non-belief of Germans close to the death camps or the many collaborators who paid the ultimate price for their exchange. Again, the U.S. looks the other way about its dirty revelations instead of altering its security policies. What other U.S. leaked breaches of principle will be discovered soon?
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Joan Savage
5.0 out of 5 stars Never forget the hidden beasts who assisted in the horrific Holocaust
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2022
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A stunning documentary that allows us to witness the ones who made the Holocaust possible. I cry every time I see it, but there is hope we shall never ever forget.
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ellefarr
5.0 out of 5 stars A difficult but necessary film to watch.
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2011
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I had seen this at an art house movie theatre when it was released several years ago. It affected me deeply. What this evil little man, Barbie, could do in his little corner of power is breathtaking. But, what is even more breathtaking is what Mrs. Klarsfeld did to him. It took her many years but she was like a dog with a bone. She was relentless.

The film is so well done and the story so well told. It is hard to watch but it is even harder not to watch. Make the time to watch this film. It will touch you as few others have done.
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5.0 out of 5 stars amazing oscar winning film - coming to DVD Fall, 2010!
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2010
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this is a super powerful documentary film - it won the Oscar for best documentary of 1988. i have an old VHS of the film - but i read it is finally coming out on DVD this fall i will buy another copy for sure. you should see it when you can.
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David A.
2.0 out of 5 stars It's mostly not about Klaus Barbie.
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2018
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Very little of this documentary actually addressed the subject of Klaus Barbie. It was mostly interviews with various family members of French Nazi figures Barbie was only spoken of in the last 10 or 15 minutes of this long, 2-dvd set.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Klaus Barbie DVD Hotel Terminus
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2014
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Klaus Barbie DVD Hotel Terminus. I gave this rating of 5 stars and I will not add anything else to that rating. This additional REQUIRED paragraph is ridiculous and a waste of my time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars About Time
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2010
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Just a short note. It has taken years for this film to be released on DVD and it might be wise, if you like this film, to go ahead and pick up the companion film, "The Sorrow and the Pity."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Un grand documentaire sur un monstre.
Reviewed in France on December 18, 2015
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Un film necessaire sur un personnage immonde et monstrueux qui n'a jamais emis le moindre regret sur les horreurs dont il s'est rendu coupable
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David Lowther
5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling and compelling. The Story of the Butcher of Lyon
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2015
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Marcel Ophuls controversially uncovered the grisly truth about the response of some French citizens to German occupation in his masterpiece The Sorrow and the Pity. Almost ten years later came his equally engrossing Oscar winning documentary Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.
Barbie was the Head of the Gestapo in Lyon and is best remembered there for his brutal treatment of French resisters and his round up and deportation to the extermination camps of the city's Jewish population.
Using interviews with survivors from the war Ophuls pieces together the story of this dreadful man who died in prison in 1991 while serving a life sentence for war crimes. After the war Barbie escaped to South America and the director takes his camera there and speaks to folk there who remember him before he was deported to France.
The first third of the film, which runs for almost four and a half hours, deals with Barbie's early life and his time as head of the Lyon Gestapo with many first hand recollections of his brutal treatment of prisoners. The middle section covers his escape, possibly aided by the CIA, to South America and the last forty minutes of so takes the viewer into the court room where Barbie faced his accusers. The final footage includes some amazing dialogue with Barbie's lawyer.
This is a compelling and truly great Holocaust documentary without any footage of the extermination camps whatsoever but this in no way lessens the impact of Hotel Terminus, one of the finest documentary films ever made.
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Barry Crawford
4.0 out of 5 stars It takes you to a time in France 30 years ...
Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2015
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It takes you to a time in France 30 years ago plus when what Barbie did brought back many emotions to the French population.
Accountability and Consequences for one's actions does usually catch up and certainly did in Barbie's case.
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Petronius
5.0 out of 5 stars A Documentary Masterpiece - French Realism
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2015
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This long documentary is the work of Marcel Ophuls who won wide acclaim for his The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) which reported on how ordinary people of Clermont-Ferrand, farmers, collaborators, government officials, artists and resistants, behaved, reacted under Nazi occupation.
Hotel Terminus (255 minutes duration) was the Gestapo headquarters in Lyon, the city where the subject of the film, SS man Klaus Barbie, worked tirelessly to justify his sobriquet - The Butcher of Lyon. After he was extradited from Bolivia to France in 1983 he was charged with crimes against humanity, torture, murder and deporting Jews to the death camps. The film is composed of many interviews, film covering decades of Barbie's life and how he was protected by those who should have condemned him. Ophuls is not to be deterred as he exposes the moral corruption of Barbie's world - and ours. The film is demanding, compelling, challenging and more than deserved its Academy Award, Documentary Feature.
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Jon-Erik F.
1.0 out of 5 stars STINKY PLASTIC
Reviewed in Canada on May 9, 2020
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Good lord did the plastic on this ever smell. I had to throw out the case.
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