“I know that history is like this: Sometimes, people are dying in wars and the people who started the war have no responsibility,” the director tells Variety. “They just become the heroes of their nations.”
“Disappearance” nevertheless paints a damning portrait of Mengele in his final years, as he grows increasingly paranoid, rambling and delusional — an interpretation, the director admits, that is partly an effort to deliver a dose of poetic justice to a war criminal who was never tried for his crimes.