Human Remains

Human Remains

30 mins | Documentary | March 21, 1998

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.

Human Remains

30 mins | Documentary | March 21, 1998

Human Remains
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.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers
Original title Human Remains
Directors Jay Rosenblatt
Writers

Cast

Eva Braun

as Self (archive footage)

Francisco Franco

as Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

as Self (archive footage)

Mao Zedong

as Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

as Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

as Self (archive footage)

Leon Trotsky

as Self (archive footage)

Paul von Hindenburg

as Self (archive footage)