“Mein kampf, it was written”: a documentary to understand to discover at the Millau cinema

The Millau cinema continues its retrospective around the achievements and productions of journalist Daniel Leconte (Albert Londres Prize, winner of a Golden Globe in 2011 and nominated for a César). The first evening of this second season, Monday November 18 at 8:30 p.m., will be devoted to the documentary film “Mein Kampf, story of a book” directed by journalist Antoine Krivine, and produced by Daniel Leconte. Both will also be present to interact with the spectators at the end of the screening.

A real book program of Nazism

The documentary is an investigation into the traces of a book written by Hitler in 1924 while he was in prison. The work has no equivalent in history in terms of the massacres and destruction it caused. Concentrated with hatred and madness, it represents a real program of Nazism.

Under what conditions was Mein Kampf conceived, what was its impact on the Nazi enterprise and on the German people? What then was its status in Western democracies, prohibited or authorized? Where do its copyrights go, who are the publishers who republish it? How can we explain the interest in the work a century after its writing? From the Landsberg fortress via the Middle East, Antoine Krivine’s documentary tells the story of the journey in a separate book.