L’homme de la cave (The Man in the Basement)

If you translate the film title into Austrian, it means: The Cellar Nazi. In a crucial scene, the Shoah denier, racist and anti-Semite, played brilliantly by the popular François Cluzet, says: ‘Thousands of us live in cellars. We have nothing to lose. We are rats, but we fight!’

There is hardly a film that deals so impressively with the everyday encounter between a Jewish family and a middle-class representative of today's right-wing extremism. The film's psychologically dramatic plot could just as easily be set in Vienna - wherever polite and educated fascists hide behind freedom of opinion, the search for historical truth and the supposed voice of the people. (Frank Stern)