Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele (2025)
Genre: History / Drama
Duration: 135 minuten
Alternative titles: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele / La Disparition de Josef Mengele
Country:
France / Mexico / Germany / United Kingdom / Spain
Directed by: Kirill Serebrennikov
Stars: August Diehl, Dana Herfurth and Burghart Klaußner
IMDb score:
6,9 (1.836)
Releasedate: 23 October 2025
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele plot
When the Second World War comes to an end, many Nazis flee their homeland. Including the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Like many others, he moves to South America. He manages to live the rest of his life in freedom and eventually dies in Brazil in 1979.
Actors and actresses
Josef Mengele
Martha Mengele
Jung
Aelxander Eckstein
Jorge
Luis
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 12367 messages
- 10458 votes
The numerous time jumps and non-chronological structure sow confusion in this character study in which Josef Mengele (August Diehl) is forced by his son Rolf (Max Bretschneider) to confront his past as a camp doctor in Auschwitz at a late age. The cinematography is magnificent, and Diehl's performance is impressive, even though he mainly rails against being used as a scapegoat, while many colleagues go free and even pursue careers in post-war Germany. This provides interesting insights, but nothing new about Mengele himself.
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scorsese
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- 13504 messages
- 11316 votes
Good film about a Nazi doctor who flees to South America after the Second World War. It takes a while for the film to really get going, and it is also presented in a rather fragmented way. However, there are enough good scenes, and the main character manages to captivate more and more. Here, he is portrayed credibly by August Diehl across the decades. The film also looks good.
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Agnimaatje
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- 226 messages
- 1359 votes
A really good film! That resonates with me so much, because for 51 years now I have become more broadly interested in the 1933–1945 period.
It has been a long time since I gave such a high rating to a film.
It is certainly a film I classify as 'special interest'; for example, it features a character named Ullrich – in civilian clothes with the highest Nazi decoration still around his neck, 10 years after the capitulation of Nazi Germany: the top Nazi pilot Ullrich Rudel (1916 – 1982).
I won't reveal anything else.
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