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NO. 14 GERMANY THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
LAST week, we left the German film industry in the clammy hands of the Nazi Party. After their defeat in the second world war, it took decades for German cinema to recover, as many talented actors and directors had fled into exile and the rigid political split of the country into east and west destroyed any immediate hope of resurrecting a national industry. In the east, film fell under the censorious eye of the Soviets.See the full content of this document
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Around the World in 80 Dvds
In the west, American imports fl ooded the cinema screens.
Only in the 1970s did things begin to stir again. A younger generation, breaking fr...See the full content of this document
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