Who Killed Walter Benjamin…

… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.

Philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German Jew, flees Germany in 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's definitive rise to power. On September 26, 1940, he dies in Portbou, a small village on the French-Spanish border. The unexplained end of a man who managed to avoid a horrible fate just to face death in very mysterious circumstances.

  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release Date: 2005-10-06
  • Runtime: 73 min
  • Country: Spain, Netherlands
  • Language: German, English, Catalan, Spanish, French
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 6
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