Falkenau, the Impossible [Falkenau, Vision de L’Impossible] (1988)
Starring Samuel Fuller
Directed by Emil Weiss
Expectations: High. I have been eagerly anticipating watching this since I reviewed The Big Red One a couple months back.
After moving to France following all the NAACP hoopla surrounding his last American film White Dog, Sam Fuller seemed to finally get the adoration and credit he always deserved at the hands of many European filmmakers and fans. One way they showed this gratitude was by making documentary films about the man, starring and narrated by Fuller himself. This is the first of these that I will be reviewing for the site and it is an apt place to start after recently looking at Fuller’s epic WWII film, The Big Red One. That film ends with the liberation of the Falkenau concentration camp, and it is this event that is the main subject of this documentary.