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Law Not War

27 year old Benjamin Ferencz was the prosecuter of the 1947 “Task Force“ process against Nazi war crimes in the Soviet Union. A MAN CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE is a portrait of the 95 year old lawyer who fought for the establishment of an ...

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95 year old Benjamin Ferencz is trying to fight his emotions with tears welling up and a choked up voice. He remembers his family who fled with him from Romania to the US when he was just 10 months old and living under the poverty line in New York’s inner city. He describes his destitute living conditions back then in a pragmatic and shrewd way right up until he starts talking about a teacher who recognized his talented and helped him to go to college and study law. He can’t hold back any longer when he thinks back to that crucial turn in his biography. It seems like he doesn’t want to disappoint her even today – and he never has. When he was just 27 year old the joyful, brave, and smart young lawyer Ferencz became the war crime prosecutor of the 1947 “Einsatzgruppen“ process in Nürnberg against 22 former SS officers who were charged and later convicted by the occupied Soviet Union.

Ullabrit Horn has made a gentle portrait of a man who has not lost his energy and willpower in his old age but who has also been traumatized his entire life by his confrontation with Nazi war crimes. As a pioneer against war and a lawyer specializing in international law, Ferencz lived to witness the decision to create an International Criminal Court in 1998 and sees it as one of his biggest triumphs. That doesn’t mean he stopped there. In 2011 he opened the first case in the International Court in The Hague which convicted former militia leader Thomas Lubanga.

Jens Mayer (INDIEKINO MAGAZIN)

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Deutschland 2015, 89 min
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Director: Ullabritt Horn
Author: Ullabritt Horn
DOP: Hans Batz, Günther Wittmann
Montage: Robert H. Schumann
Music: Stefano Giannotti
Distributor: W-Film
FSK: 12
Release: 12.11.2015

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