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A former concentration-camp detainee who, alongside her sister, suffered unthinkable experiments at the hands of the Third Reich's most notorious medical monster attempts to reconcile her past by forgiving the Nazis for their genocidal atrocities in directors Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh's deeply personal documentary. Spurned on in her mission by the recent death of her sister -- a belated but direct result of the horrors that befell the then-young girl during World War II -- one-time "Mengele
Apr 28, 2006 Wide
Apr 17, 2007
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... compelling and provocative ...
This tale of one survivor determined not to let those horrific experiences define her is moving enough to make Forgiving Dr. Mengele a worthy addition to the ever-growing canon of Holocaust-related films.
For a film about death-camp survivors Forgiving Dr. Mengele is surprisingly uplifting and, at times, even lighthearted.
The film is mostly dry and uninspired. An extraordinary woman like Eva Kor deserves a less ordinary biography.
This moving film explores the trauma of a Holocaust survivor with rare complexity.
This provocative Holocaust documentary explores vast issues by narrowing its focus to the intimate impulses of a single woman.
A thought-provoking documentary about the difficulty people have with the spiritual practice of forgiveness.
Short, simple but powerfully provocative documentary.
It's hard to know whether to be impressed or appalled by Eva Mozes Kor, the Holocaust survivor in Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh's fascinating documentary.
Eva's story could have been a solely tragic one, but she has some powerful words of wisdom that could help anyone deal with traumatic events.
The politics of forgiveness cast a heavy shadow over Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh's documentary about Romanian-born Eva Mozes Kor, who endured 10 months of Dr. Josef Mengele's notorious medical experiments.
a rickety thing
A favorable depiction of a Holocaust survivor who forgives.
The film's visual style is unremarkable and includes some really jejune transpositions and graphic matches the filmmakers use to bridge the past and present, but the woman's memories are vivid enough without such affectations.
Though dry in spots, Forgiving Dr. Mengele is a provocative, emotionally affecting film.
Though some of the heated exchanges in Forgiving Dr. Mengele seem awkward and staged, they put Kor at the center of a riveting debate over how best to come to terms with past horrors, and the potential (and limits) of putting them to rest.
An extremely interesting documentary about a survivor of the Mengele twin experiments in Auschwitz, who decides she needs to forgive Dr. Mengele and the rest of the Nazis, as an act of self-healing (releasing herself from their hold on her through bitterness). Understandably, she meets with a lot of resistance as she
September 29, 2006It would be tough not to be moved by this documentary. Eva Kor is an amazing woman who has to be admired, whether one agrees or disagrees with her standpoints. This documentary is well pieced together, with a good balance of living today and living then. It does however get a bit repetitive, but overall the effect is
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