The new Amazon Prime Video series, Hunters , divides. Produced by Jordan Peele ( Get Out , Us ), with a cast led by a film legend in the person of Al Pacino, the program relates the hunt by former Nazi hunters in New York in the 1970s war criminals members of Adolf Hitler's party. So far, no problem, on the contrary: the series was one of the most anticipated on the streaming service at the start of the year, according to the Hollywood Reporter. What bothers, however, is the way in which torture and the killing of prisoners in the death camps are staged, in very shocking flashbacks.
One sequence, in particular, of a game of human chess, shocked the Auschwitz Memorial, which did not hesitate to challenge the creators of the series on Twitter.
Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors. Inventing a fake game of human chess for @huntersonprime is not only dangerous foolishness & caricature. It also welcomes future money. We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy. pic.twitter.com/UM2KYmA4cw
- Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) February 23, 2020“Auschwitz was full of horrible suffering, which the survivors were able to tell us about. But inventing a fake human chess game for Hunters is not only silly and caricatured. It is also a way of empowering deniers. We honor victims by preserving factual accuracy, ”wrote the memorial on Twitter.
Not a documentary
The creator of the series, David Weil, wanted to respond. Himself grandson of a Holocaust survivor, he rebels against the idea that telling torture and hatred with fictional scenes would serve the cause of the Holocaust deniers.
“Although Hunters is a narrative series, with fictional characters, it is inspired by real events. But it is not a documentary so far (…) To speak of the chess duel scene, yes, it is fictionalization. Why did I think it was important to script it and place it in the series? To counter the words of the Holocaust deniers who downplay the actions of the Nazis. So I wanted to show the most extreme sadism and the violence - which is realistic - which could have been perpetrated against the Jews and other victims (…) But I did not want to represent these acts of sadism, of torture, these cruel games as they were committed, "reacted the scriptwriter to Variety, assuring that he was in" the same camp "as the Auschwitz Memorial.
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