29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (07.11-23.11.2025)
A stylishly executed espionage thriller, this is the most commercially appealing film yet from the auteur filmmaker.
Josef Mengele was the physician and SS officer whose horrific experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz earned him the sobriquet ‘Angel of Death’.
Based on the novel by Olivier Guez “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” displays the brio and ambition characteristic of director Kirill Serebrennikov, although the film is in a markedly different mode from previous stylised exercises; notably “Leto”, “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” and last year’s freewheeling biopic “Limonov”. “Disappearance” revolves around an imposing lead – sometimes subtle, sometimes a touch barnstorming – by a largely unrecognisable August Diehl.
Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
In cinema 11/8/2025
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele
MS12
Genre
Biography, Historical drama
Director
Kirill Serebrennikov
Run time
2h 15min
Cast
August Diehl, Dana Herfurth, Friederike Becht
Genre
Biography, Historical drama
Director
Kirill Serebrennikov
Run time
2h 15min
Cast
August Diehl, Dana Herfurth, Friederike Becht
29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (07.11-23.11.2025)
A stylishly executed espionage thriller, this is the most commercially appealing film yet from the auteur filmmaker.
Josef Mengele was the physician and SS officer whose horrific experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz earned him the sobriquet ‘Angel of Death’.
Based on the novel by Olivier Guez “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” displays the brio and ambition characteristic of director Kirill Serebrennikov, although the film is in a markedly different mode from previous stylised exercises; notably “Leto”, “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” and last year’s freewheeling biopic “Limonov”. “Disappearance” revolves around an imposing lead – sometimes subtle, sometimes a touch barnstorming – by a largely unrecognisable August Diehl.
Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
A stylishly executed espionage thriller, this is the most commercially appealing film yet from the auteur filmmaker.
Josef Mengele was the physician and SS officer whose horrific experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz earned him the sobriquet ‘Angel of Death’.
Based on the novel by Olivier Guez “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” displays the brio and ambition characteristic of director Kirill Serebrennikov, although the film is in a markedly different mode from previous stylised exercises; notably “Leto”, “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” and last year’s freewheeling biopic “Limonov”. “Disappearance” revolves around an imposing lead – sometimes subtle, sometimes a touch barnstorming – by a largely unrecognisable August Diehl.
Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
Info
Rating
Under 12 Not Recommended
Production year
2025
Global distributor
Kinology
Local distributor
Estofilm
In cinema
11/8/2025