Watch a Nazis Banned Book
The sources for this poll are https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/101688.Books_Banned_by_Nazis
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
And
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_banned_in_Nazi_Germany
While book banning in schools and school libraries in the USA is a hot button issue today, I, not the IMDb as a whole, I personally think it doesn’t compare to the level where Hitler took it. He didn’t just ban books in school libraries and in schools, he banned them in all public libraries, arrested authors, confiscated books, burned books, and at first restricted sales in bookstores, and then out right banned sales and publication. That is real book banning. The worst part of it is that many titles on the Nazis banned list included many authors who weren’t German. But staying with German and Austrian-German authors and Jewish German authors first, and then going to non-German authors later, many films have been made from their works. Many were made outside of Germany during Hitler’s lifetime. But the most ironic twist of fate and poetic justice is that after World War 2 ended, Hitler’s own book, “Mein Kampf”, was banned in Germany until it fell into public domain.
Which of these film versions made from a Hitler banned book is your favorite?
To discuss it, go to this page.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
And
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_banned_in_Nazi_Germany
While book banning in schools and school libraries in the USA is a hot button issue today, I, not the IMDb as a whole, I personally think it doesn’t compare to the level where Hitler took it. He didn’t just ban books in school libraries and in schools, he banned them in all public libraries, arrested authors, confiscated books, burned books, and at first restricted sales in bookstores, and then out right banned sales and publication. That is real book banning. The worst part of it is that many titles on the Nazis banned list included many authors who weren’t German. But staying with German and Austrian-German authors and Jewish German authors first, and then going to non-German authors later, many films have been made from their works. Many were made outside of Germany during Hitler’s lifetime. But the most ironic twist of fate and poetic justice is that after World War 2 ended, Hitler’s own book, “Mein Kampf”, was banned in Germany until it fell into public domain.
Which of these film versions made from a Hitler banned book is your favorite?
To discuss it, go to this page.
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- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.By Erich Maria Remarque
- DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongDavid HandStarsHardie AlbrightStan AlexanderBobette AudreyThe story of a young deer growing up in the forest.By Felix Salten
- DirectorValeri FokinStarsEvgeniy MironovIgor KvashaTatyana LavrovaBased on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka - DirectorOrson WellesStarsAnthony PerkinsArnoldo FoàJess HahnAn unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.By Franz Kafka
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGreta GarboJohn BarrymoreJoan CrawfordA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.By Vicki Baum
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsRudolf ForsterLotte LenyaCarola NeherThe Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.By Bertolt Brecht, Basically all his works.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMartin FreemanIan McKellenRichard ArmitageA reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien
- DirectorHans W. GeissendörferStarsWerner EichhornRod SteigerMarie-France PisierHans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.Basically everything Thomas Mann wrote.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsDirk BogardeRomolo ValliMark BurnsWhile recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.Thomas Mann
- DirectorAxel von AmbesserStarsHeinz RühmannErnst StankovskiFranz MuxenederDuring World War I, Schweik (played by Heinz Rühmann) is drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army as soldier, where he is assigned to be an assistent to Lt. Lukas.By Jaroslav Hasek
- DirectorVladimír MichálekStarsOlga CharvatovaMartin DejdarRadim Hladík Sr.Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end. The film provided Czech comedian Jirí Lábus with a new kind of role: that of the despotic uncle of a main hero Karel Rossman (Martin Dejdar).Franz Kafka
- DirectorRudolf NoelteStarsMaximilian SchellCordula TrantowTrudik DanielA man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle.Basically every title Franz Kafka wrote
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerIldikó BánságiKrystyna JandaIn early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?Klaus Mann
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsDaniel GélinMadeleine RobinsonEleonora Rossi DragoIn this legal drama, told in flashbacks, the son of a judge, who had sentenced a man who may be innocent to 17 years in prison, tries to investigate the mysterious case.“Der Fall Maurizius” by Jakob Wassermann. Basically everything he wrote.
- DirectorJean DelannoyStarsPierre BlancharMichèle MorganLine NoroA minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.Basically anything André Gide wrote before 1938.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRobert TaylorElizabeth TaylorJoan FontaineA knight seeks to free the captive King Richard and put him back on the throne.By Sir Walter Scott
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsRobert NewtonAlec GuinnessKay WalshIn Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.By Charles Dickens
- DirectorCarlos SaldanhaStarsJohn CenaKate McKinnonBobby CannavaleAfter Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure.“The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf. Disney did an 8 minute short while Hitler was still living! Ferdinand the Bull (1938).
- DirectorAleksandr BashirovStarsAleksandr BashirovSergei DyachkovEvgeniy FyodorovNikolai Petrovich comes to St. Petersburg to organize a revolution against the oligarchy.Because of Jack London’s novel “The Iron Heel” , which this movie is based on, all of his novels were banned in Nazis Germany, including the next three.
- DirectorChris SandersStarsHarrison FordOmar SyCara GeeA sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.Jack London
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsEthan HawkeKlaus Maria BrandauerJedJack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.Jack London
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsEdward G. RobinsonIda LupinoJohn GarfieldAfter being fished out of the sea by a sailer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.Jack London
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsRod TaylorAlan YoungYvette MimieuxA man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.All of H. G. Wells’ works were banned!
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsGene BarryAnn RobinsonLes TremayneA small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.H. G. Wells
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsGary CooperHelen HayesAdolphe MenjouAn American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.Ernest Hemingway All of his works up until 1945 we’re banned too.
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsRaymond MasseyEdward ChapmanRalph RichardsonThe story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.“The Shape of Things to Come” by H.G. Wells
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsLeonardo DiCaprioCarey MulliganJoel EdgertonA writer and wall street trader, Nick Carraway, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, amid the riotous parties of the Jazz Age.F. Scott Fitzgerald got banned too
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsJeremy IronsOrnella MutiAlain DelonIn Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.I was looking for “Swann’s Way” but all of Marcel Proust got banned too.
- DirectorLeontine SaganCarl FroelichStarsDorothea WieckHertha ThieleEmilia UndaAt an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.By Christa Winsloe
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsMarcelle ChantalJean YonnelValéry InkijinoffDr. Holk leads a lonely life in a small dutch colony in the tropics. Fled from love and civilisation his only companions are alcohol and his work, which takes him to the villages ravaged by dirt, fever, fear and a strange illness turning innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day he receives a visit by the young and beautiful Hèlène Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover's child before her husband returns. Even though Holk is infatuated by her seductive beauty, he haughtily refuses her request. Hélène seeks help from a Chinese practitioner. When Holk - driven by his fevered love and agony - finds her again in a dirty dive, it is already too late.By Stefan Zweig. There are other movies with the same title, but this is the one based on his novel.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsRalph FiennesF. Murray AbrahamMathieu AmalricA writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.Director Wes Anderson said he used 2 of Stefan Zweig’s novels to make this film.
- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsRolf WenkhausKäthe HaackFritz RaspEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.By Erich Kästner. And Disney made a version of this too. Emil and the Detectives (1964).
He started to write “Lottie and Lisa” (also known as “Two Time Lottie”) during WW2 but the Nazis stopped him from finishing it. However he survived the war and finished it. It became Disney’s The Parent Trap (1961). - DirectorJean KerchbronStarsAndré ReybazGeorges DoukingFrançois VibertGustav Meyrink. The silent masterpiece was inspired by his novel but differed greatly - The Golem (1920)
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsClaude RainsGloria StuartWilliam HarriganA scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.H. G. Wells
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsLuca MarinelliJessica CressyVincenzo NemolatoMartin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.Jack London