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{{short description|2005 film by Malte Ludin}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
| image = 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß}}
| producer = [[Iva Svarcova]]
| director = [[Malte Ludin]]
| writer = Malte Ludin
| starring = [[Hanns Ludin]]
| music = {{ubl|[[Werner Pirchner]]|[[Hakim Ludin]]|[[Jaroslav Nohavica]]}}
| cinematography =
| editing = {{ubl|Malte Ludin|Iva Svarcova}}
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2005|02|12|Berlin International Film Festival|2005|04|07|Germany|df=y}}
| runtime = 85 minutes
| language = {{ubl|[[German language|German]]|[[Slovak language|Slovak]]}}
}}
'''''2 or 3 Things I Know About Him''''' ({{langx|de|'''2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß'''}}) is a documentary film in which [[German people|German]] director [[Malte Ludin]] examines the impact of [[Nazism]] in his family. Malte's father, [[Hanns Ludin]], was the [[Third Reich]]'s ambassador to [[Slovakia]]. As such, he signed [[deportation]] orders that sent thousands of [[Jew]]s to [[Auschwitz]]. Hanns Ludin was executed for [[war crime]]s in 1947.
==Production==
Malte Ludin did not undertake this film until after the death of his mother, Erla. The documentary does include clips of earlier interviews he conducted with Erla, however. Malte also interviews his sisters, who recall their father with some fondness.
==Synopsis==
A German filmmaker forces his siblings to come to terms with their father's Nazi past. Despite documentary evidence of Hanns Ludin's direct involvement in the deportation of thousands of Slovak Jews to their deaths, director Malte Ludin's sisters remain in various phases of denial about their dad. His older sister, Barbel, is a particularly staunch denier of any complicity on the part of the elder Ludin, who served as Adolf Hitler's ambassador to Slovakia during World War II.
The film exposes the spectrum of reaction to the Holocaust among the post-war generation in Germany. While Ludin confronts his father, and Germany's, guilt full-on, his sister Barbel continually refuses to concede the most basic points about the mass slaughter of millions of Jews by the Nazis.
==Release==
''2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß'' was first shown in 2005. In 2007, it was released as ''2 or 3 Things I Know About Him'' in [[Manhattan]] by the [[National Center for Jewish Film]]. It opened at [[Film Forum]] on January 24, 2007, and was paired with ''[[Torte Bluma]]'', an [[English-language]] short by [[Benjamin Ross]].
==Reception==
The film was received well by critics. {{As of|2020|07}}, the film holds a 100% approval rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on six reviews with an average rating of 8/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/2_or_3_things_i_know_about_him|title=Two or Three Things I Know About Him (2005)|publisher=|accessdate=2 July 2020|via=www.rottentomatoes.com}}</ref>
==See also==
*''[[Hitler's Children (2011 film)|Hitler's Children]]'', 2011 Israeli film about second- and third-generation descendants of prominent Nazis
*''[[The Commandant's Shadow]]'', 2024 documentary about the descendants of Auschwitz commandant [[Rudolf Höss]], ending with one of his sons meeting a survivor.
==References==
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* {{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/movies/24thin.html | last = Scott | first = A.O. | date = 2007-01-24 | title = Our Father, the Nazi Zealot: A Family Grapples With Its Burdens and Blind Spots | work = The New York Times | page = B5 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171108165536/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/movies/24thin.html | archive-date = 2017-11-08 | url-status = live}}
== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0466634|2 or 3 Things I Know About Him}}
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