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Section: General News - Two new films, different from each other in style and content, address war crimes and moral apathy. The Reader is a drama about a woman who was a concentration camp guard during World War II. The animated docu-drama Waltz with Bashir is an Israeli film about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinians in Beirut. Both have received Golden Globe awards and have been nominated for Academy Awards.
The Reader Twenty years after World War II, Hanna Schmitz stands trial and is convicted for leading people to their deaths at a Nazi concentration camp during the war.
Until her trial, Hanna represses her guilt by telling herself that …