Yesterday's movie event was very successful. The cinema was indeed sold out; I watched the film from the last row of the top balcony.
The film was Prosecuting Evil. It is the story of Ben Ferencz, who at age 27 was a prosecutor at one of the Nuremberg trials. What a life this man had! Mainly, of course, determined by his being one of the first on the scene as the Nazi camps were liberated on 1945, collecting evidence of war crimes. He found details of systematic murder earlier and outside of the camps as well, and that was what his big trial was about.
He continued to work as a lawyer and to work towards the establishment of an international criminal court, which was finally established in 2002.
The film was made quickly and is based on interviews with the 97-year-old lawyer, with stills and some film from his past. At the event yesterday, the director said that they did all the interviews on one day, ploughing through for 8 hours! The director said he'd come back the next day, because he wanted to film Ferencz swimming in his pool. Ferencz said, no, let's go do it now! And the movie ends with this man, almost a hundred years old, swimming, as well as walking, talking, arguing. Amazing.
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