New York-based Cargo Film & Releasing has acquired global rights (excluding France and Germany) to German-based Florian Film’s The Books He Didn’t Burn which is narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons. The film is directed by Jascha Hannover for Florian Film.
The Books He Didn’t Burn is described as “a first of its kind story of how Hitler’s personal library significantly informed his immoral worldview and offers a chilling glimpse into the mass murderer’s mind. While Hitler is better known for burning books than collecting them, the books he voraciously read provided the horrific rationale that led to the unconscionable violence and harm he orchestrated toward Jewish people in 1930s and 1940s Europe.”
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Cargo Film & Releasing International Sales Manager Emma Fiske-Dobell comments: “Our hope with this never-before-explored story is to better understand how certain texts inform people’s bigotry and violence, in order for our society to be better equipped to root it out.”
The film features contributors such as Timothy W. Ryback, a historian and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague, and Delphine Horvilleur, France’s third female rabbi, among many others.
The film is available in 1 x 90’ and 1 x 60’ formats and is a German production for the French-German channel Arte, where it premieres this week. The film is one of many on Cargo Film’s slate of non-fiction titles that include the SXSW-selected film Satan Wants You, about a Satanic panic of the 1980s, Academy Award-shortlisted film Hidden Letters, and the environmentally-themed documentary Mighty Afrin: in the Time of Floods, also a co-operation with Arte, which recently made its MIPDoc/ MIPTV debut.
