. . . as 1920s and early 1930s German (or perhaps Austrian) film director Fritz Lang relates his story of how Hitler's Minister of Propaganda--Josef Goebbels--tapped him as the initial lead man for the Nazi's TRIUMPH OF THE WILL film project (despite Lang's disclosure to Goebbels that Lang's maternal grandmother was Jewish, to which Goebbels replied "WE decide who's Aryan, and who's not!!). Certainly, when Lang decided to escape to Paris (and eventually America) the night of his interview with Goebbels, forcing the Nazi's to turn to a less experienced woman director, Leni Riefenstahl, to head up their Nuremburg Rallies Project, it changed the course of World History. Ms. Riefenstahl's so-called documentary turned out to be an exercise in Tunnel Vision, as her one-sided editing focused almost entirely upon Hitler's rantings, ravings, and Anti-Semite tirades. TRIUMPH OF THE WILL makes no mention of what's at stake if the Third Reich FAILS to endure the promised 1,000 years. Had Mr. Lang been allowed to inject his cultural sensitivities into the TRIUMPH OF THE WILL Project, the resulting film surely would have been more Fair and Balanced, weighing the Pros and Cons of World War, the Holocaust, and the resulting German Apocalypse. Therefore, EVERYONE should watch this CONVERSATION WITH FRITZ LANG.
