Hitler's Children Reviews

A film whose core is a haunting question: When parents are monstrous, where does filial love begin and end?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The moral weight of "Hitler's Children" is unmistakable. So is that weight's inertness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The sins of the fathers have seldom weighed so heavy as in the odd, intriguing and ultimately moving Hitler's Children.

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Haunting documentary about the descendants of top Nazi leaders struggling to endure their horrific legacy.

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Quiet, simple and soaked in sorrow, "Hitler's Children" takes a stripped-down approach to an emotionally sophisticated subject.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Hitler's Children is a powerful and well-judged presentation of the stories and their impossibilities.

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