This adaptation of Olivier Guez’s book takes us on a journey through the life on the run of Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor who fled to Argentina in 1949 after sending nearly four hundred thousand men, women and children to the gas chambers.
For forty years, Josef Mengele enjoyed the backing and support of his family, friends and governments, before dying peacefully on a beach in Brazil in 1979. This intimate and historical journey explores the total impunity he enjoyed, right up until his final encounter with his son Rolf, the key witness to his decline, the ‘last mirror’, the sole judge who would attempt to make him confront the abject crimes he had committed.
