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Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Film / 1988

Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

Directed by Marcel Ophüls
WarDocumentary

★ 7.1/10Audience rating

Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape—with U.S. help—to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.

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Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape—with U.S. help—to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.

Cast

Klaus BarbieSelf Marcel OphülsSelf Serge KlarsfeldSelf Beate KlarsfeldSelf Claude LanzmannSelf Daniel Cohn-BenditSelf Günter GrassSelf Jacques VergèsSelf Régis DebraySelf Bertrand TavernierSelf Raymond AubracSelf Lucie AubracSelf

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