BLIND SPOT.
HITLER'S SECRETARY

André Heller,
Othmar Schmiderer
Austria 2001
90 min, Digi Beta (Blow-up 35 mm), Colour, in German

with English subtitles
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24 Oct 2002, 7:30 pm
26 Oct 2002, 6:30 pm
$50/$30
Lim Por Yen Film Theatre,
Hong Kong Arts Centre
2 Harbour Road, Wanchai

For the first time ever, 81-year-old Traudl Junge appears on camera to tell of her life.

She was Adolf Hitler's private secretary from the fall of 1942 until the end of the Nazi regime.

She worked for him in the Wolf's Lair, on the Obersalzberg, in the Führer's bunker in Berlin, and in the end, she recorded his last will and testament.

Fifty-six years after the war's end an important eyewitness speaks up, and her experiences have made her a fierce opponent of National Socialism.

At the same time she seems unable to forgive the young girl she once was, for her fondness for Hitler, for her naiveté and ignorance. Two days after the world premiere in Berlin, Traudl Junge died in a Munich hospital.

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2002 -- Panorama Audience Award