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Post by andydecker on May 29, 2020 19:21:53 GMT
Kafka is named, which I always thought reaching, beetle-man or not. Or simply because he was not German. No, of course not. Like Mayrink, who was from Austria. But both wrote in German. And while Mayrink is more or less forgotten, Kafka is still held in high regard. Of course only after the war, the Nazis put him also on the index of forbidden books and destroyed his books.
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Post by Knygathin on May 30, 2020 6:15:49 GMT
I am not a Marlene Dietrich fan and I saw this a long time ago, but I don't know if one can really include it. You mean Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) ... There are some quaint old city quarters, expressionistic sort of. But otherwise I guess you are right.
Another beautiful film is The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) by George Pal. It is an American production, but gives romantic views of old Germany and its people, that we are otherwise never offered from Hollywood or from allied-occupied Germany. It also has nice stop-motion animation by Jim Danforth.
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Post by andydecker on May 30, 2020 12:21:19 GMT
I am not a Marlene Dietrich fan and I saw this a long time ago, but I don't know if one can really include it. You mean Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) ... There are some quaint old city quarters, expressionistic sort of. But otherwise I guess you are right.
Another beautiful film is The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) by George Pal. It is an American production, but gives romantic views of old Germany and its people, that we are otherwise never offered from Hollywood or from allied-occupied Germany. It also has nice stop-motion animation by Jim Danforth. I have a faint memory of seing the Grimm movie, but could be I am confusing this with something else. Those movies of the time filmed on location have become great documents, like The Third Man. Recently I watched Funeral in Berlin for the first time, one of those Len Deighton movies. The background was often more interesting than the story. I have never seen the Wall in person, but this was a nice reminder how things were and how much they are already forgotten.
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