Movie

Human Remains

★ 7.3/10 · 15 votes 1998 0h 30m Released

Documentary

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.

Cast

Eva Braun Self (archive footage) Francisco Franco Self (archive footage) Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Vladimir Lenin Self (archive footage) Mao Zedong Self (archive footage) Benito Mussolini Self (archive footage)