The Commandant’s Shadow (2024)

The Commandant’s Shadow

It is no surprise that the grim climax where Hans and Anita are together and Auschwitz is not even shown is the most tragic climax of all movies.
One would blindly doubt Völker’s sensibility if she thinks that this unpleasant can in any way salvage our torn past. But she does not know what else to do with the emotional void that the scene seems to evoke in its actors once again, especially Anita, who appears almost indifferent about the whole affair. It is the assumption of “The Commandant’s Shadow” that her subjects could in some measure be cured of their mental injuries or at least be made to look differently at their mental wounds. It is sad that we have perfected the never again refrain into a cynical catchphrase of this kind in regard to a film that in its entirety is about the pain that its characters endure as they inhabit a world that so obviously did not learn from all the puerile toys they were told were parents.

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