German television and movie companies are shooting a full-length feature movie about Auschwitz with the former death camp as the actual setting. The movie will be based on “Kommandant in Auschwitz,” the biography of the last commander of the camp. Rudolf Hess who was sentenced to death by the Poles and executed by hanging at Auschwitz in 1946. The film will be a co-production of two German companies, the Munich-based “Iduna,” and the Westdeutsche Rundfunk, a regional, state supervised television and broadcast authority in Cologne.
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