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The Return from the Other Planet
2025 6.4 (5 votes) 1h 21m
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Black Sheep Film Productions

The Return from the Other Planet

Overview

In 1945, a few months after his release from Auschwitz, Yechiel De-Nur, still in his striped jacket, sat down and started writing. After two weeks, he was reborn as Ka-Tzetnik, “the man from the camps.” The books that he wrote were translated into 32 languages and sold millions, while the author himself hid behind the pseudonym Ka-Tzetnik. At the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 his revelatory testimony revealed his true identity as he described Auschwitz as “the other planet,” a place outside of human judgment. Years later, undergoing an experimental LSD treatment for trauma, he revisits his experience, imagining himself as a SS officer, and that changes everything.

Key Crew

Director: Assaf Lapid

Writer: Assaf Lapid, Naomi Levari, Saar Yogev

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