Two Germanys on Film
This past weekend, LACMA began its new film series–“Torn Curtain: The Two Germanys on Film”–impressively filled with a number of unusual and rare titles; I’m particularly excited about the inclusion of Straub-Huillet’s first film, Not Reconciled (1965). The series is also at the center of a web of fascinating links and events.
The first two titles of the series were key “rubble films,” The Murderers Are Among Us (Wolfgang Staudte, 1946) and the lesser known (outside Germany) In Those Days (Helmut Käutner, 1947), two of the earliest films shot on location in a bombed Berlin with the task …
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