ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to address a transversal topic within perpetrator studies: how subsequent generations deal with the legacy of their perpetrator ancestors. To achieve it, we analyse six recent documentary films, all produced between 2015 and 2018 that cover four different contexts: Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the Chilean and Argentine dictatorships. Through a comparative methodological approach, our focus is on finding similarities that define this global trend through the exploration of two closely related phenomena: (1) Personal responses and social responsibility and (2) Family dynamics. One important outcome of this new cinematic tendency, that we call the ‘post-perpetrator generation documentary film’, is that by accepting their relatives’ involvement, the perpetrator’s offspring are able to recover their personal identity, and also to reintegrate their personal experience into a broader historical context. Indeed, the social sphere is an important focus in post-perpetrator generation documentary films, because a major part of the perpetrator’s legacy involves social responsibility to the past, but especially to the future: concern for next generations is the ethical motivation of the post-perpetrator generation.

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面对肇事者的遗产：后肇事者一代纪录片

摘要 本文的目的是解决肇事者研究中的一个横向主题：后代如何处理肇事者祖先的遗产。为了实现这一目标，我们分析了 2015 年至 2018 年期间制作的六部近期纪录片，涵盖四种不同的背景：纳粹德国、西班牙内战以及智利和阿根廷的独裁统治。通过比较方法论，我们的重点是通过探索两个密切相关的现象来寻找定义这一全球趋势的相似之处：（1）个人反应和社会责任以及（2）家庭动态。这种新电影趋势的一个重要结果，我们称之为“后犯罪者一代纪录片”，是通过接受他们的亲属的参与，肇事者的后代能够恢复他们的个人身份，并将他们的个人经历重新整合到更广泛的历史背景中。的确，社会领域是后肇事者一代纪录片的一个重要焦点，因为肇事者遗产的主要部分涉及对过去的社会责任，尤其是对未来的社会责任：关心下一代是后肇事者的伦理动机。肇事者一代。