Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

Nov 1, 1988

4h 28m

★ 6.9

Overview

Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape—with U.S. help—to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.

Genres

War

Documentary

Production Companies

Memory Pictures

The Samuel Goldwyn Company

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Cast

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Klaus Barbie

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Marcel Ophüls

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Serge Klarsfeld

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Beate Klarsfeld

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Claude Lanzmann

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Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Self

Günter Grass

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Jacques Vergès

Self

Régis Debray

Self

Bertrand Tavernier

Self

Raymond Aubrac

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Lucie Aubrac

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