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FILM REVIEW
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by Roland Binet (De Panne, Belgium)
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No Secret Monuments. Silent Statues and the Distortion of Truth.
A documentary by Paula Kirman and Adam Bentley.
The film’s website. Trailer on youtube. Announced on Film Freeway.
Having previously produced two documentaries related to monuments in honor of Nazis and their collaborators, Paula Kirman and Adam Bentley journeyed to the three Baltic States and to Finland in order to track and unearth monuments to Nazi collaborators displaying a hero-worship in these countries, eighty years after the war. In their own words, the purpose of the documentary is ‘exposing monuments that commemorate Nazis and their local collaborators.’ In the documentary, of one hour and twelve minutes, Kirman is our guide and narrator.