Meticulous and Desperate | show | 1989 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The history of the 20th century told through the memories and reflections of the Spanish writer/politician Jorge Semprú | dHNfX0hOTGF0X0J4V2s

Transcript

00:00After the war, George Conrad writes...

00:05There are people who are driven to murder by their fear of death.

00:09They're not even bad people.

00:11They become murderers because they can't fight against the passing of time.

00:19Gabriel Katsia Marquez writes...

00:22Humanity is well-sufficiently civilized...

00:25to kill its fellow humans in the slaughterhouse of war...

00:28but not yet developed enough to consume them.

00:34After the war, George Steiner will write...

00:37We hate those who hold an ideal for us...

00:41a visionary promise that we can't achieve.

00:45During the Holocaust, there was talk of a mental illness...

00:49from an outburst to the unbearable pressure of that Jewish vision.

00:55Gorges Semproen will write years after the concentration camp...

00:59Was my life in Buchenwald a dream?

01:02Or was my life after Buchenwald a dream?

01:05Didn't I simply die there?

01:07And was everything else I would experience...

01:10nothing more than the gray smoke from the concentration camp?