Kirill Serebrennikov's 'The Disappearance of Josef Mengele' at Cannes Film Festival

In Argentina, the MDR has reviewed a file on the concentration camp physician Josef Mengele, known for barbaric human experiments. The station criticizes the secrecy of the state – and now, having photographed the file, operates it itself.

Kirill Serebrennikov's 'The Disappearance of Josef Mengele' at Cannes Film Festival

"The Disappearance," Serebrennikov's first film in German, follows the war criminal's life of impunity.

Presented as an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, Josef Mengele's disappearance is the adaptation of the eponymous novel by Frenchman Oliver Guez. The feature film traces the cavalry of Josef Mengele. Nicknamed "ange de la Mort", this top graduate of the Wehrmacht, who became sadly famous for his experiments on the deportees of the Auschwitz camp, manages to escape international justice until his death. It is the Russian filmmaker …

Kirill Serebrennikov • Director of The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

23/05/2025 - CANNES 2025: The Russian director in exile elaborates on his motivation to dissect a Nazi mind on screen and reveals behind-the-scenes production details