The Books He Didn’t Burn

Title

The Books He Didn’t Burn

Broadcaster

ZDF/ARTE

Release Date

2023

Runtime

90 Minutes

Team

Written and directed by: Jascha Hannover and Claus Bredenbrock
Cinematography: Andy Lehmann, Jimmy Kets
Film Editors: Sandra Brandl, Kalle Satzger
Music Composer: Steve Willeart
Producers: André Schäfer (Florianfilm DE), Juergen Buedts (Las Belgas BE), Gregory Zalcman (Take Five BE)

Festivals

Raindance Film Festival, UK New York Jewish FF, USA Boca Jewish FF, USA Houston Jewish FF, USA Kumu Documentary, Estonia More tba

World Sales

Cargo Films & Releasing (USA)

Supported by

Film und Medienstiftung NRW Creative Europe Media Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)

International TV Sales

SBS (Australia) RTBF (Belgium) Canvas (Belgium) CBC (French Canada) Ceska TV (Czech Republic) Canal+ (Poland) TV3 (Spain) RTV (Slovenia) RTS (Switzerland) Rialto (New Zealand)

THE BOOKS HE DIDN’T BURN takes a critical look at the history of Western thought by examining the remains of Adolf Hitler’s private library. The dictator and mass murderer owned 16,000 books at the end of his life, 1,200 of which are kept in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C today.
The hateful ideas in them paved the way for Hitler – and influence far-right extremists until this day.