Top Cast
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Charlton Heston
Josef Mengele
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F. Murray Abraham
Paul Minsky
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Thomas Kretschmann
Hermann M.
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Odilon Wagner
Wolfgang Weinert
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Denise Weinberg
Magdalena Weinert
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Camilo Bevilacqua
Jens Keitel
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Petra Reinhardt
Young Hermann's Mother
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Marit Nissen
Young Aunt Lotte
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Ivan de Almeida
Policeman at Front Desk - Manaus
Overview
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
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