The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films from Germany, Scandinavia, Finland & Austria list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Despite its brilliance, Bertolt Brecht wasn’t pleased with Pabst’s film of Die Dreigroschenoper. Therefore, he entrusted an original script […]
Daily Archives: October 1, 2007
Kuhle Wampe (1932) was banned by Germany for the duration of Hitler’s reign. Deemed Communistic, it was banned most everywhere else in Europe as well. From a play by Arthur Schnitzler, Max Ophüls’s Liebelei was released in Germany in 1933, about a month after Hitler became chancellor, without the director’s or playwright’s name in the […]
Dennis Grunes 