Nazis. Production Beginning in 2008, Luke Holland conducted over 300 interviews with witnesses, guards, farmers, soldiers and participants of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Holland began working on the project after discovering his grandparents were murdered in a concentration camp, and his mother had fled Austria before the Germans arrived. Holland knew that many interviewees were skeptical and hesitant to go on camera because they did not want to share what they knew or were responsible for. In June 2020, Holland died after the film had cleared post-production. Release The film had its world premiere at the 77th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2020. In January 2021, Focus Features acquired distribution rights to the film, and set it for a May 21, 2021, release. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 3December 2021. Reception The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 93% approval rating, based on 71 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's consensus reads, "Final Account falls shy of the definitive statement suggested by its title, but the belated reckoning on display remains chillingly valuable viewing." According to Metacritic, which sampled 17 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 76 out of 100, the film received "generally favorable reviews". References External links 2020 films American documentary films British documentary films 2020 documentary films Participant (company) films Focus Features films Documentary films about the Holocaust 2020s American films 2020s British films