The Menten Files
Journalist Hans Knoop, editor in chief of Accent, a magazine affiliated with the newspaper De Telegraaf. Knoop slowly gets personally involved in the hunt for the not-yet-prosecuted war criminal Pieter Menten. Menten lives a lavish life in a villa about thirty miles south of Amsterdam. When he decides to auction off part of his art collection, the Newspaper De Telegraaf interviews Menten, which is read by Chaviv Kanaan, a journalist from Israel, who obtained the interview through a Dutch correspondent, Dr. Henriette Boas. Kanaan accuses Menten of the execution of Jews, including several family members of his, in the Polish villages Podhorodce and Uricz. Kanaan contacts Hans Knoop and tells him that, in 1943, Menten shipped three train carriages filled with stolen art to the Netherlands; the case Menten is born. Knoop persists in the story, but Menten refuses to go down quietly.
- 2016-2016
- 1 season
- Documentary, Drama, Suspense
- TV-14
Journalist Hans Knoop, editor in chief of Accent, a magazine affiliated with the newspaper De Telegraaf. Knoop slowly gets personally involved in the hunt for the not-yet-prosecuted war criminal Pieter Menten. Menten lives a lavish life in a villa about thirty miles south of Amsterdam. When he decides to auction off part of his art collection, the Newspaper De Telegraaf interviews Menten, which is read by Chaviv Kanaan, a journalist from Israel, who obtained the interview through a Dutch correspondent, Dr. Henriette Boas. Kanaan accuses Menten of the execution of Jews, including several family members of his, in the Polish villages Podhorodce and Uricz. Kanaan contacts Hans Knoop and tells him that, in 1943, Menten shipped three train carriages filled with stolen art to the Netherlands; the case Menten is born. Knoop persists in the story, but Menten refuses to go down quietly.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
Aflevering 1
47 mins
In 1976, journalist Hans Knoop gets a mysterious call from Tel Aviv containing damning accusations about wealthy entrepreneur Pieter Menten and his art collection. He begins to investigate the story.
Episode 2
Aflevering 2
47 mins
Knoop pays another visit to Piet van Apeldoorn, the officer who had once arrested Menten, and has to act fast when he gets a lead about Menten's supposedly dead brother, who may be alive and well.
Episode 3
Aflevering 3
50 mins
Knoop locates Menten's brother Dirk and pleads with him to divulge the dark secrets he harbors about his sibling. Menten grabs the chance to evade arrest, and soon an international hunt is underway.