27 October 2014

How Germans today confront the Nazis


The BBC has a video by Christian Blauvelt concerning modern films about a long-gone era:
Reporting for Talking Movies, Christian Blauvelt examines the recent slate of German films about World War Two, and the difficulties German filmmakers face when depicting the period:
“Just bury everything. Don’t talk about anything. No one knew anything. Just look forward, don’t discuss.  We have a lot to do with building up the country.” That’s how actress Nina Hoss describes the attitude of many Germans, and German filmmakers in particular, in the first few decades after World War Two. “It worked well to not look at it, what had happened in this country,” she says. But, in the past fifteen years, that attitude has changed dramatically, and German filmmakers have turned their cameras on the nation’s darkest hour in films and television miniseries like Downfall and Generation War.
Christian Petzold’s Phoenix is one of the latest German films to address the war and its aftermath, and it was a sensation at the Toronto Film Festival. It stars Hoss as a Jewish woman who survived imprisonment in a concentration camp and searches the rubble of post-war Berlin for her husband, who may have betrayed her to the Nazis. Petzold, a prominent member of the Berlin School of filmmakers, wanted his film to empathize with the victims of the Nazis, rather than tell another story about the Nazis themselves.
Rico says it is probably a movie he'll see, if it comes to a theater nearby...

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