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Genres  Documentary, War film
Language  German
7.6/10 IMDb

Editor  Traute Wischnewski
Country  East Germany
Der lachende Mann Bekenntnisse eines Morders movie poster
Release date  1966
Directors  Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
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Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Morders is an East German film. It was released in 1966.

Continually smiling or laughing, this man, a self-acknowledged Nazi, proudly reveals that he went to the Congo to save Western civilization from Bolshevism to complete the work of the Nazis. Dressed in his military jungle uniform (with his Second World War decorations) he waxes eloquent about the "colors" of South Africa, "explains" apartheid, and freely discusses his "adventures". Shots of corpses, tortures, and executions of Blacks are intercut. It is not often that one can see and hear a real, "live" Nazi in action, talking (more or less) freely because he presumed him-self to be among friends instead of with two of the most cleverpolitical propagandists of our time, working for the other side.

Plot

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo� Muller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk. Muller fought in Congo’s civil war in the 1960s, and the more Pernod he imbibes, the more fascinating this interview becomes. He asserts that blacks are no better than animals and shares his dream of enlisting in the U.S. Army to fight communism in Vietnam and beyond. He flaunts his military paraphernalia, including the Iron Cross he was awarded in Germany in 1945, and proceeds to deny his earlier statements about civil killings, the ethics of war, and the defense of Western libertarian values. This documentary tour-de-force is interspersed with pictures of Muller and his comrades proudly posing with severed skulls, and it touches on other Nazis who are active in Africa as well as American world dominance.

References

Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Morders Wikipedia
Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Morders IMDb Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Morders themoviedb.org