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Documentary about the mysterious death of the writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin in the town of Port Bou (Girona, Spain), bordering with France, while trying to escape the Gestapo to be a renowned German Jewish intellectual.
The film makes a brief review of the last years of his life: the flight to Paris from his native country in 1933 with the Nazi rise and subsequent attempt to escape again to the USA in 1940 by Spain and Portugal a planned shipment when France became occupied by Hitler's troops.
The main body of the documentary is made up those last days of September 1940, when Benjamin reaches from Marseilles Port Bou by any one of many mountain passes as they existed at that time so to avoid the official border. The coastal town was the last to see alive the writer and also where would be buried. ¿Natural death or suicide? There is no certainty about it. Interviewed in the film are common people who speak "hearsay" or mouth of ancestors, not personally get to know the writer.
The circumstances of Benjamin's death remain a historical enigma but "Who Killed Walter Benjamin ..." is a document readable and well structured to make known to the forces and the daily reality of people in Port Bou on those dates, after the Spanish Civil War on the eve of WWII.
6/10
