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  Press Releases below for: BULLETPROOF SALESMAN  |  YELL FOR CADEL  |  HEINRICH HIMMLER  |  THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS
     
     
  A Documentary about the Business of War from the Filmmakers of Gunner Palace  
   
BULLETPROOF SALESMAN

A film by Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker (Gunner Palace)

 

70 minutes, color
 
UPC: 7-20229-91421-5
Catalog #: FRF 914215D
SRP: $24.95
 
 
Street Date: March 23  
 
 

BULLETPROOF SALESMAN is the darkly humorous story of Fidelis Cloer, a self-confessed war profiteer. In a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, Fidelis has supplied kings, presidents and dictators with the finest armored vehicles that money can buy. In his world, where security is a commodity, violence (and better yet, war) presents sales opportunities just as rain sells umbrellas.

Fidelis found the perfect business opportunity when the US invaded Iraq – selling thousands of his hand-crafted vehicles was possible. But as the war evolved, and armor-defeating Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) proliferated, Fidelis found himself engaged in an arms race with insurgents who upped their explosive ante to defeat his increasingly higher (and more expensive) levels of armor.

• Official Selection, SXSW Film Festival
• Official Selection, Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival

 
 
 

“Sharply observed, darkly amusing!” - VARIETY

“Potent... Endlessly fascinating! Riveting, surreal, and darkly funny...a must-see.” - CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Highly entertaining...surprisingly effective! Unexpectedly subtle and fascinating for entirely different reasons than you might think. One of the most engaging documentaries to play at South By Southwest.” - NERVE.COM

“Entertaining... whizzes by like a stray round past your ear.” - DCIST

“Impressive!” - WASHINGTON CITY PAPER

 
 
  Go Backstage at the Tour de France with World Champion Bike Racer Cadel Evans  

YELL FOR CADEL

A film by Maarten Van Cauwenberghe & Steven Decraene

 
Approx. 1 hour + 20 minutes of bonus materials, color, English w/some subtitles
 

UPC: 7-20229-91420-8
Catalog #: FRF914208D
SRP: $24.95

 
 
Street Date: March 23
 
 

YELL FOR CADEL goes behind the scenes at the Tour de France to reveal how a world class cyclist – Australian Cadel Evans, the recent winner of the World Championships – prepares for the world’s toughest bike race.

For over 100 years this spectacular three week race across the mountains, valleys and cities of France has fascinated millions of people worldwide, who cheer on their favorite riders.

Feel the tension, the passion and the excitement of one of the world’s foremost sporting competitions as Cadel and the rest of his Silence-Lotto racing team prepare for their ‘08 Tour de France campaign. Evans has long been a favorite at the Tour; he’s never won...but this could be his year.

 

HEINRICH HIMMLER:
ANATOMY OF A MASS MURDERER

Credits • A film by Michael Kloft (writer of The Goebbels Experiment)

 
52 minutes, color & b/w
 

UPC: 7-20229-91418-5
Catalog #: FRF914185D
SRP: $24.95

 
 
Street Date: March 23
 
 

Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that made the Nazi regime so unique in modern history. An early henchman of Hitler’s, Himmler turned a small gang of thugs into a monstrous pseudo-religious order and widely feared instrument of terror – the SS.

As a compliant servant to his Führer, Himmler controlled an economic empire in which hundreds of thousands of slave workers were exploited and extermination camps murdered millions. Using rare archival materials and interviews, this film biography shows how – and why – Himmler became a “monster of history.”

 

THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS

Credits • A film by Michael Kloft (writer of The Goebbels Experiment)

 
50 minutes, color & b/w
 

UPC: 7-20229-91419-2
Catalog #: FRF914192D
SRP: $24.95

 
 
Street Date: March 23
 
 

After seizing power, the Nazis began their crusade against Jews with discriminatory laws and the looting of property; they turned to violence openly in what has come to be known as Kristallnacht: the night of broken glass.

In November 1938 German soldiers set on fire some 400 synagogues and destroyed 7,000 Jewish stores and businesses. More than 90 people were killed, 600 committed suicide, and over 26,000 men were deported to concentration camps.

Through rare footage, photographs and documents, THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS reveals the background to this orgy of anti-Semitic violence, which – while masterminded by the Nazi regime – is shown to have been largely accepted by the German public.

 
 
 
 
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