Tod und Teufel

Summary

Death and Devil

In the film, documentary filmmaker Peter Nestler portrays his grandfather Eric von Rosen (1879-1948). As a photographer, von Rosen undertook numerous research trips to South America and Africa in the early 20th century. Through his detailed reports and photographs, he became an important chronicler of the indigenous tribes whose culture was in danger of being destroyed by colonialism. After his travels, von Rosen participated as an anti-Semite in an association of Swedish Nazi groups from the 1930s. From 1938 he withdrew from public discourse.   

Peter Nestler, who already investigated the background to the emergence of racism and the reasons for the Holocaust in other documentaries, approaches the subject from a very personal perspective in this film.