Day in the Life of Gestapo Officer Schmidt

Original title: Powszedni dzień gestapowca Schmidta

Directed by Jerzy Ziarnik

Constructed from the private photo album of a Gestapo officer, this short documentary juxtaposes his everyday snapshots with the captions he himself wrote. Through these images and notes, the film reveals the chilling banality of Nazi perpetrators’ lives while exposing the brutality they oversaw.