The Phantom of Spandau

Rudolf Hess was a high-ranking Nazi, a close friend and right-hand man to Adolf Hitler. For many years, his chaplain – our grandfather – was his only visitor and confidant during his lonely life sentence in Berlin’s huge Spandau Prison. Can one offer love and forgiveness to one of history’s worst criminals?

Keywords

  • Behind Bars
  • Belgian Docs
  • Cine-Short: 90 Minutes of cinema
  • history
  • prison
  • religion

Director

  • Idriss Gabel, Marie Calvas

Documentary, Independent

52min

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Belgium
2019
Rudolf Hess was a high-ranking Nazi, a close friend and right-hand man to Adolf Hitler. For many years, his chaplain – our grandfather – was his only visitor and confidant during his lonely life sentence in Berlin’s huge Spandau Prison. Can one offer love and forgiveness to one of history’s worst criminals?

Rudolf Hess was a high-ranking Nazi, a close friend and right-hand man to Adolf Hitler. For many years, his chaplain – our grandfather – was his only visitor and confidant during his lonely life sentence in Berlin’s huge Spandau Prison. Can one offer love and forgiveness to one of history’s worst criminals?


Cast & Crew