Known throughout the world as the "great Nazi hunter" and the "conscience of the Holocaust," Simon Wiesenthal was also a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps who turned that trauma into his life's mission: the documenting and tracking of Nazi war criminals. In his lifetime, Wiesenthal's tireless efforts would lead to the capture of over 1100 Nazi war criminals and the founding of the research center that still bears his name. This surprisingly lively biography from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Richard Trank (THE LONG WAY HOME) traces the Wiesenthal's career from his childhood in Galicia, a region of Austria that is now part of the Ukraine, as the son of a suga...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins