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Nov 6, 2015
88
What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy wields a power that towers above many other small movies. It may not be the large definition of cinematic, but it is still a true film.
Nov 13, 2015
83
William Faulkner's oft-cited quote has rarely been more apt: "The past is never dead. It's not even the past."
Nov 5, 2015
80
Despite a melodramatic title, the film is keen and measured. Drama builds in the small moments.
Nov 5, 2015
80
A Nazi Legacy – What Our Fathers Did comes to a climax in Lviv, but the film is a layered examination of brutality, self-deception, guilt and the nature of justice which is compelling throughout.
Nov 16, 2015
80
Sands has his own personal link to the Holocaust, revealed over time, and My Nazi Legacy becomes horribly gripping.
Nov 5, 2015
75
In the film’s most visceral scene, as the trio stands on the site of a mass grave in Lviv, Ukraine, von Wächter still can’t bring himself to admit his father’s direct culpability.
Nov 10, 2015
75
From the outset, What Our Fathers Did doesn’t have much narrative thrust. The film makes it clear that it is more interested in the process than any end goal. But the process of what exactly is a question that gnaws unanswered for the first third of the documentary.
Nov 12, 2015
75
What Our Fathers Did is a movie about historical and filial responsibility, about repudiation, about acceptance, about the pain we inherit, and the pain that continues to be doled out.
Nov 5, 2015
70
What begins as a friendly trip grows increasingly tense as the men visit sites of mass murder.
