Nazi movies: “Third Reich” propaganda films were often disguised as comedies, dramas, and musicals promoting the German ethos and “way of life.” Curiously – or rather, eerily – these Nazi…
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days with Julia Jentsch and Fabian Hinrichs. Directed with clenched fists by Berlin Film Festival winner Marc Rothemund, who seems to have been at least partly…
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La Habanera with Zarah Leander and Ferdinand Marian. First, I have to state that I watched Douglas Sirk’s La Habanera, not knowing what to expect. All I knew was the…
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Lene Maria Christensen and Johan Philip Asbæk (a.k.a. Pilou Asbæk) in A Family (Zentropa / Rolf Konow). Also of note at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival are Michael Winterbottom’s violent…
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Stage, film, and television actor Ulrich Mühe, winner of last year’s Best Actor European Film Award, died at age 54 on July 22 at his home in Walbeck, in the…