Hitler's Children Reviews
Hollywood & Fine
Seems like such an obvious topic for a film that it's surprising no one else has made it before..Raises issues that never get old. Nor should we stop talking about them.
Top CriticA film whose core is a haunting question: When parents are monstrous, where does filial love begin and end?
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| Original Score: 4/5
Reeling Reviews
"Hitler's Children" is an original study of the Holocaust and is also a cautionary statement of the dangers of the rise of a new fascism.
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| Original Score: B
The moral weight of "Hitler's Children" is unmistakable. So is that weight's inertness.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Reeling Reviews
Zeevi not only has found himself five incredible subjects, but he's woven his film together so that their experiences and opinions are studies in contrasts and commonalities.
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| Original Score: B+
Boston Phoenix
[A] chilling, unsettling documentary.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The sins of the fathers have seldom weighed so heavy as in the odd, intriguing and ultimately moving Hitler's Children.
Haunting documentary about the descendants of top Nazi leaders struggling to endure their horrific legacy.
Film Journal International
As fascinating as it is provocative about aspects of evil, guilt, denial, heredity and repentance, this Israeli/German co-production offers much to think about.
Quiet, simple and soaked in sorrow, "Hitler's Children" takes a stripped-down approach to an emotionally sophisticated subject.
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| Original Score: 5/5
It's always dispiriting to see an ideal subject given shallow treatment, and one spends most of this documentary wishing a more experienced director had made it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
AV Club
How these men and women have chosen to face this inherited burden directly or flee from it creates a fascinating spectrum the film explores via quietly intimate interviews.
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| Original Score: B
Hitler's Children is a powerful and well-judged presentation of the stories and their impossibilities.
Slant Magazine
The film drains its subjects of the shame forced on them by Nazi ancestors and yet has difficulty arriving at an effective, constructive thesis.
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| Original Score: 2/4
sbs.com.au
Hitler's Children explores the themes of guilt, memory, family ties and identity with a profound simplicity that quickly gets very raw, at times overwhelmingly so.
