Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.
Directed by Jay Rosenblatt
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Eva Braun
Self (archive footage)
Francisco Franco
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Mao Zedong
Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Leon Trotsky
Self (archive footage)
Paul von Hindenburg
Self (archive footage)
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