Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Mörders

Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Mörders
Directed by Walter Heynowski
Gerhard Scheumann
Release date
 1966
Country East Germany
Language German

Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Mörders is an East German film. It was released in 1966. The title translates into English as The Laughing Man – Confessions of a Murderer.

Plot

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk.

Müller 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 Müller 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.

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