Heartbeat Detector

Heartbeat Detector French La Question humaine is a 2007 French film directed by Nicolas Klotz and starring Mathieu Amalric. The film is based on the 2000 novel by Franois Emmanuel.

Kessler then discovers that Jsts father headed a Nazi extermination group on the Eastern Front during World War II. Jews placed in the back of a closed truck were killed with the trucks exhaust gas. A device called a heartbeat detector was then applied to discover any who had survived. Tormented by this memory Jst attempts suicide.The action then shifts from the companys politics to the Holocaust. An analogy is drawn between the desubjectivized corporate language used in downsizing and that used in the Nazi chain of command. ........

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