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Developed as from photo and film files, this documentary offers the same precision and criticism that Director Peter Cohen showed in the brilliant The Architecture of Doom. Official documents reveal ideas and theories involving eugenics and racial purity as forms to perfect the human species and breed a new man. These concepts were researched in the course of the twentieth century with varying attempts to make them into reality. In Germany and in the ex-Soviet Union, the process met with dire consequences in spite of having travelled in diverse directions. In Germany, racial purity ran through the body, through perfection and physical beauty, whereas in the Soviet Union, eugenics focused on the brain and on the intellect.

This is a precious document on biological manipulation as a weapon towards eliminating all those who do not adapt to "racial standards" imposed by a fascist model of human ideals.

   
 
Director : Peter Cohen
Screenplay : Peter Cohen
Cinematographer : Peter Östlund, Mats Lund
Edition : Peter Cohen
Producer : Peter Cohen
Production : Arte Factum , Swedish Television, The Swedish Film Institute
World Sales : Swedish Film Institute
Box 27126 SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: 46 8 665 11 00
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  Col., 85 min., 1998
 

Swede Peter Cohen was awarded the Special Prize by the Jury of the 16th Mostra for The Architecture of Doom that became cult in Brazil. Cohen was born in Lund, Sweden in 1946, the son of a German Jew who escaped from Berlin in 1938. He became a professional photographer at the age of eighteen and studied in the Stockholm School of Cinema and in the Dramatic Institute of Documentaries until 1975. He produced over forty documentaries and children's films awarded prizes internationally. His feature film The Story of Chaim Rubowski and the Jews of Lodz was deemed by the U.S. Critics to be one of the best in 1984.