Plenty of films considered politically beyond the pale have been locked up, for reasons good and bad. A German filmmaker born decades after WW2 offers a documentary about the controversy over ‘sensitive’ Nazi films, the propaganda features that encouraged racial hatred and offered lies to support the Third Reich’s oppressive policies. We can easily visualize American neo-Nazis cheering the messages in these pictures. What’s the verdict? Let them loose or destroy them?
Forbidden Films: The Hidden Legacy of Nazi Film
DVD
Zeitgeist Films / Kino Lorber
2014 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 94 min. / Verboten Filme: das verdrängte erbe des Nazi-kinos / Street Date May 15, 2018 / available through /
Starring: Götz Aly, Stefan Drössler, Jörg Friess, Jörg Jannings, Egbert Koppe, Johanna Leibeneiner, Sylvie Lindeperg, Oskar Roehler, Rainer Rotehr, Sonja M. Schulz, Margaretha Von Trotta, Ernst Szebedits, Christiane Von Wahlert, Moshe Zimmerman.
Cinematography: Isabelle Casez, Aline László, Ludolph Weyer
Film Editor: Annette Muff
Additional Music: Björn Wiese
Produced by Amelie Latscha,...
Forbidden Films: The Hidden Legacy of Nazi Film
DVD
Zeitgeist Films / Kino Lorber
2014 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 94 min. / Verboten Filme: das verdrängte erbe des Nazi-kinos / Street Date May 15, 2018 / available through /
Starring: Götz Aly, Stefan Drössler, Jörg Friess, Jörg Jannings, Egbert Koppe, Johanna Leibeneiner, Sylvie Lindeperg, Oskar Roehler, Rainer Rotehr, Sonja M. Schulz, Margaretha Von Trotta, Ernst Szebedits, Christiane Von Wahlert, Moshe Zimmerman.
Cinematography: Isabelle Casez, Aline László, Ludolph Weyer
Film Editor: Annette Muff
Additional Music: Björn Wiese
Produced by Amelie Latscha,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
"To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation" runs from November 4-25, 2015 and features 74 newly restored masterworks and rediscovers including films by Chantal Ackerman, Dario Argento, Samuel Fuller, Orson Welles and many more. Read More: 10 Rare Gems MoMA Just Saved from Obscurity Special guests for the series include Oja Kodar, Stefan Droessler, Guy Maddin, Chris Langdon, Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako ("Timbuktu") and noted film historians John Canemaker, Tom Gunning and Eddie Muller. Maddin will introduce two films on the silent program including “Pan,” the 1922 film by Harald Schwenzen based on the novel by Knut Hamsun; and “Monsieur Don’t Care,” a 1924 comedy short starring Stan Laurel in his pre-Oliver Hardy days. Indiewire recently spoke to Maddin over the phone about why these two films matter to him and about the state of film preservation. Why these two films in particular? Although, I...
- 11/13/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
What a difference a year makes! Just after World War II, hundreds of French citizens who like Maréchal Pétain and Pierre Laval collaborated with the Nazi regime, became "resistance fighters." So it seems in Germany as well, as tens of thousands, perhaps millions of Germans who shouted "Heil Hitler" became "disgusted" with everything to do with Nazism, particularly with the Holocaust. With the film "Harlan-In the Shadow of Jew Süss," writer-director Felix Moeller deals with a filmmaker who quite obviously collaborated with the Nazi ideology in that he made anti-Semitic films while glorifying the Third Reich but who, like Adolf Eichmann and so many other top criminals, caviled that they were forced to do as the apparatchiks commanded.Harlan-in The Shadow Of Jew SÜSS (Harlan-Im Schatten von Jud Süß)
Zeitgeist Films
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B
Directed by: Felix Moeller
Written By: Felix Moeller
Cast: Stefan Drössler,...
Zeitgeist Films
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B
Directed by: Felix Moeller
Written By: Felix Moeller
Cast: Stefan Drössler,...
- 2/6/2010
- Arizona Reporter
In mid-January earlier this year Stefan Drössler, the Director of the Munich Film Museum, delivered a lecture co-presented by Pacific Film Archive and the Goethe-Institut San Francisco on the restoration of the German premiere version of Max Ophüls’ Lola Montès; a print acquired by Pfa from a private collection with help from Drössler and the Munich Film Museum. Among the scope of Drössler’s many specialities in film history are German cinema, Hollywood cinema (including his leading expertise on Orson Welles) and the history of 3-D, to name just a few. With Lola Montès currently poised for a theatrical run in San Francisco, I thought now would be a perfect opportunity to share his Pfa commentary.
Admitting it is always a pleasure to lecture at Pfa, Drössler likewise apologized for his modest English. He outlined that he would first discuss the production circumstances behind Lola Montès, followed by 10 minutes worth...
Admitting it is always a pleasure to lecture at Pfa, Drössler likewise apologized for his modest English. He outlined that he would first discuss the production circumstances behind Lola Montès, followed by 10 minutes worth...
- 11/4/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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