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Taking Sides (2001) or The Denazification of a Legend
Istvan Szabo’s Taking Sides tells the story of the so-called Denazification of one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, Helmut Furtwängler. (As can be read in the Jewish Virtual Library...
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The Ogre aka Der Unhold (1996) or Nazism, Symbolism and the Erlking
Volker Schlöndorff’s The Ogre aka Der Unhold (France/Germany/UK) is based on Michel Tournier’s novel Le Roi des Aulnes aka The Ogre. The Ogre is a highly symbolical, original and complex movie that...
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NaPolA Elite für den Führer aka Before the Fall (2004) Looking into the...
To call this movie brilliant is an understatement. The German movie NaPola is quite an achievement. It perfectly illustrates the German concept of Schwarze Pädagogik meaning Poisonous or Black...
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Hitler – The Rise of Evil (2003) Hitler´s Childhood, Youth and Early Years
The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke) Hitler – The Rise of Evil follows Hitler´s early years. First his childhood with an abusive father, then...
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Der Stellvertreter aka Amen (2002) The Disillusioning Reaction of the...
In the beginning of Costa Gavras´ Der Stellvertreter aka Amen we see how a group of children with special needs is transported to an extermination camp and gassed. When this is being found out people...
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The Diary of Anne Frank (2009) The BBC mini-series
The Diary of Anne Frank is a BBC mini-series in 5 parts, each of which is half an hour long. There are far over 20 movies or TV series that depict the life of this famous thirteen year old girl. Anne...
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Eichmann (2007)
I was looking forward to watch the British Hungarian co-production Eichmann starring one of my favourite German actors Thomas Kretschmann. If I tell you it was entertaining this should ring a bell...
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Nordwand – North Face (2008)
Maybe the German/Austrian/Swiss co-production Nordwand – North Face isn’t strictly speaking a war movie but it contains one of my favourite subjects, Nazi ideology and propaganda and therefore still...
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Mephisto (1981)
I wonder what took me so long to watch Mephisto for the first time. István Szabó‘s movie is an absolutely riveting and chilling tale of one man’s betrayal of everything he once believed in and all the...
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Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt (2012)
I knew I couldn’t go wrong with Hannah Arendt. It can’t get much better than Barbara Sukowa starring in a movie by Margarethe von Trotta. Just recently I have watched another movie they’ve made...
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