This is the incredible story of Doctor Félix Kersten, one of the greatest masseur-therapists of the 1930s. In 1939 he became the personal doctor of the great leader of the SS, Himmler, who suffered from terrible stomach convulsions. preventing one from working and living. But Doctor Kersten's magic fingers manage to relieve him. From there is born a singular relationship between the executioner and his doctor. Gradually Kersten makes him understand that there is a direct connection between the horror of his actions and his illness. Thus, alone, unarmed and half-prisoner of the Nazi machine, closely monitored, Kersten will force Himmler to lie to Hitler. Week after week, Kersten sells her care for men and women condemned to concentration camps. He thus snatched thousands of victims from the fanatical Nazi torturers. At the Liberation, Kersten was accused of complicity with the Third Reich, but several international commissions of inquiry cleared his honor. Joseph Kessel was one of the first to tell his story.
Director: Emmanuel Amara
Thematic keyword(s)
War of 39-45, History, Memory, Anti-Semitism, Humanitarian, Death, Doctor