Human Remains

[Dave Monroe]

Human Remains
a film about the banality of evil

Written and directed by Jay Rosenblatt
30 minutes • 16mm• color/B&W • 1998


“HUMAN REMAINS stares evil in its altogether human face. As brilliant
a film as its subject is chilling."
–Bill Nichols, Professor of Cinema, S.F. State University

Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality
of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of this 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.

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