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Kissinger
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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These twenty-five hours of tape are not onIy the most wide-ranging interviews Henry Kissinger has ever given but, contractualIy, the last extended interviews he wilI give in his extraordinary life. The resulting ninety-minute documentary film is effectively his epitaph. Kissinger's is the onIy contemporary interview in the film, and his story is told with no narration and ilIustrated with the extraordinary fiIm and audio archive, much of it never seen before. As such, the film offers a unique insight into the mind and personaIity of the man who, more than any other individual, shaped the post-war foreign policy of the United States. lndeed, with Nixon embroiIed with Watergate, Kissinger was the high priest of U.S. grand strategy and decision making. For a time, he was the most powerful figure in the most powerful country in the worId. Because of his reputation as a MachiaveIlian and devotee of ReaIpoIitik, there is perhaps no more controversial figure in American public life. To many liberaIs, he is implicated in war crimes allegedly committed with his knowledge in countries from Cambodia to ChiIe. By aIlowing Kissinger to respond to these and other criticisms in his own words, this fiIm recasts our understanding not only of the CoId War era but aIso of the predicament of the United States and the world today. The fiIm aIso reveals the true character of this extraordinary muIti-faceted man. |
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