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Healing by Killing

This film describes the career of two Nazi physicians, one a young doctor who acquired his “professional skill” during a euthanasia program and then went on to become the first commandant of the Treblinka concentration camp, the other a renowned gynecologist who performed experimental sterilization procedures in Auschwitz. The film examines key questions of medical ethics raised by the responsibility of German physicians in creating the mass killing machine that was the Holocaust. Set against these facts, the film then goes on to examine contemporary medical ethics.

Festivals and Awards:

Banff,1996; Israfest, New York, Los Angeles, USA, 1996; Yamagata Film Festival, Japan, 1997

Director: Nitzan Aviram

Producer: Nitzan Aviram

Production Company: Capita Productions

Cinematographer: Yoram Millo

Editor: Naomi Pres-Aviram

Original Soundtrack: Oded Zahavi

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, ICP, the Israel Film Service, the National Council for Culture and the Arts.

Subtitles: English

Film Name in Hebrew: ריפוי בהרג

This film describes the career of two Nazi physicians, one a young doctor who acquired his “professional skill” during a euthanasia program and then went on to become the first commandant of the Treblinka concentration camp, the other a renowned gynecologist who performed experimental sterilization procedures in Auschwitz. The film examines key questions of medical ethics raised by the responsibility of German physicians in creating the mass killing machine that was the Holocaust. Set against these facts, the film then goes on to examine contemporary medical ethics.

Festivals and Awards:

Banff,1996; Israfest, New York, Los Angeles, USA, 1996; Yamagata Film Festival, Japan, 1997

 

Director: Nitzan Aviram

Producer: Nitzan Aviram

Production Company: Capita Productions

Cinematographer: Yoram Millo

Editor: Naomi Pres-Aviram

Original Soundtrack: Oded Zahavi

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, ICP, the Israel Film Service, the National Council for Culture and the Arts.

Subtitles: English

Film Name in Hebrew: ריפוי בהרג

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