The Flat (2011)
Director: Arnon Goldfinger
I saw this documentary recently. What a film! The narrator has to come to terms
with the eventual discovery that his grandparents had consorted with a high-level
Nazi official between the two World Wars and also after the Second World War. Further, he cannot understand why his mother,
once she becomes aware of this association, seems non-conflicted and unmoved about
it. This story reminds me of Sophocles’ Oedipus, who in his relentless search
for knowledge eventually finds out things that should perhaps have been left
unknown. The information that the
narrator of the documentary finds out has devastating emotional consequences
for both his family, as well as for the daughter of the Nazi official. This was certainly a thought-provoking film.