Coming 92 years after the Oscar-winning Hollywood adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s seminal novel, this German take on the source material is full of intelligent references and inversions that expand on Remarque’s humanist plea.
28/09/2022 - The upcoming edition of the largest Czech documentary film gathering will reflect on the war in Ukraine and is assembling the largest showcase of Filipino cinema in Europe
28/09/2022 - The upcoming edition of the largest Czech documentary film gathering will reflect on the war in Ukraine and is assembling the largest showcase of Filipino cinema in Europe
Fascist and communist dictators recognized the power of cinema early on. DW discusses this with author Peter Demetz, who looked into how Hitler, Goebbels, Mussolini, Lenin and Stalin dealt with the medium.
film profile], discovered in the Forum section of the 71st Berlinale, a meticulous and original investigation based on the very rare clandestine photographs taken by the deportees themselves (from the spring 1943 to the fall of 1944) at the risk of their lives, from within the camps.
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In conversations with historians specialised in the history of the Shoah, the director uncovers the story of each of these pictures, plunging at the heart of those images with a magnifying glass and placing them back as accurately as possible in the current reality of the remains of the Dachau, Mittelbau-Dora, Buchenwald, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück camps. Who took those pictures, and in what circumstances? Where did the camera come from? Who’s in the frame and what does it reveal? How was the film hidden and salvaged? So many questions which are explored methodically and patiently, by offering hypotheses (we do not know the exact circum