Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

This typically long (267 minutes!) and very thorough Marcel Ophuls documentary traces the life--both as Nazi official and fugitive from justice--of accused war criminal Klaus Barbie. Produced in Paris, the film for the most part, avoids the standard shots of Nazi atrocities in favor of a murder-mystery approach. Ophuls himself appears as a sort of detective, ferreting out information about Barbie from associates, officials and victims. The director has noted that he was deliberately pattern...