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Gone to the dogs German director Werner Schröter, an official ‘New Wave’ director, has been previously too confrontationally ‘strange’ (Deux (2002), Die Königin – Marianne Hoppe (2000)) to stand four-square with the other greats of his country (such as Wenders, Fassbinder and Herzog) when it comes to his work being distributed outside his home land. The [...] Put doubts aside German cinema and I have never seen eye-to-eye. I don’t really get why this is – I am not a man who is fearful of the odd subtitle. If a non-English-language DVD is to be found in my player, it will almost certainly not have dialogue in German. And yet, nearly every time [...] Making the difference A worthy examination of a Nazi who did the right thing. John Rabe (1882-1950) was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation (and massacre) in 1937-38 and, failing in those efforts, his work to protect and succour Chinese civilians [...] Fitting tribute Gerald Loftus returns with his thoughts on a gritty, based-on-fact war story… The lump that was in my throat during the 139 minutes of L’Armée du Crime, Robert Guédiguian’s dramatization of the ‘Manouchian Group’ story has subsided, but the emotion remains. This is a good, old-fashioned, based-on-fact war story that needed to be told, [...] Suffer the children Directors before Michael Haneke have asked the same fundamental question that permeates his elegiac, trenchant study of darkness and light, Das weiße Band (2009) – namely, with specific reference to Germany, from whence did the affiliation with fascism rise, and how did a people turn a blind eye to the atrocities in their [...] Secrets and lies In what was, quite remarkably, German writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s first feature, we are taken inside the dark heart of East Germany in the mid-1980s. Communism still rules with an iron grip, the fall of the Berlin Wall is five years away, and Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) is a high-flying member [...] [photopress:mongol.jpg,thumb,alignleft]The boy who would be Khan Writer-director Sergei Bodrov’s Mongol (2007) fell victim somewhat to a less-than-helpful advertising campaign at the time of its release, depicting the film as being largely about Genghis Khan’s military conquests, but Bodrov’s work (and an epic, impressive piece of work it is) in reality takes us through the life of [...] |
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