Word: roschmann
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's foolscap bestseller about a German journalist who happens onto The Big Story. An old man, a Jew, kills himself and leaves a diary behind. The diary is a chronicle of concentration-camp horror, especially of the bestiality of a commander called Roschmann (Maximilian Schell), who killed, along with some 60,000 others, the diarist's wife. The diarist remembered Roschmann vividly, even though the commander had dropped from sight. Nearly 20 years later he was spotted at the opera, and the Jew reported him to the police. The official response was polite dismissal...
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