Speer Goes to Hollywood

The Israeli premiere took place as part of the official competition of the Jerusalem Film Festival 2021, where Lapa won the Diamond Award for directing.

In 1971, after the success of Speer's bestseller Inside the Third Reich, Paramount Studios wanted to adapt it into a film and Andrew Birkin went to discuss the script.

[4][5] In the film, Speer recalls the years of the Nazis' rise to power, to his role in World War II, to the Nuremberg trials.

In the interviews, Speer whitewashes his involvement in Nazi atrocities such as extermination through labour and indifferently describes his alleged lack of awareness of The Holocaust.

[9] Jessica Kiang from Variety was more critical, writing that while the premise was a "potentially fascinating story", and that "a hazy picture of Speer's quite infuriating ability to obscure, evade or massage the truth... emerges", the film was "embellished" and "falls some way short".

[10] Elad Shalev, the editor of the Israeli film portal Seret.co.il reports from Berlin, enjoyed the combination of several timelines, including videos from the Nuremberg trials, to show the contradictions and manipulations Speer tries to perform, in order to rewrite history.

"[4] The critic Glenn Kenny posted a lengthy article on RogerEbert.com that poses serious questions as to the authenticity of Lapa's film using audio obtained from Birkin and conversations with Errol Morris.