The "Munchhausen" (1943) mystery
Some years ago, a British channel broadcast a version of 1943's "Munchhausen", directed by Josef von Baky and starring Hans Albers, very different from the one we now know as the restored version....
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No, the only version I've seen I obtained from the German embassy here in Los Angeles for showing at a science fiction convention.
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Kino on Video do a lovely DVD of this, beautifully restored with some good extras. If you can dissociate the Nazi connotations, it's a magnificent film.http://www.MJSimpson.co.uk - cult movies and the...
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I can totally ignore the period of production of this movie, as there is absolutely nothing such as Nazi propaganda in it. At one point, the main character even pleads for liberty for all people of...
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Quote:I can totally ignore the period of production of this movie, as there is absolutely nothing such as Nazi propaganda in it One of the staunchest defenders of this movie I ever met was Wendayne...
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"Children of Paradise" started shooting on August 16, 1943, then interrupted and re-started on November, 9 - with a partly modified casting (Robert Le Vigan being replaced by Pierre Renoir). Alexandre...
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Quote:Some years ago, a British channel broadcast a version of 1943's "Munchhausen", directed by Josef von Baky and starring Hans Albers, very different from the one we now know as the restored...
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Quote:which gives some grounds for believing that it may be a unique restoration that potentially uses alternate materials. It must be the case. A shot that I remember very clearly is when...
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Quote: The director was Hungarian. MJ, what Nazi "conotations" do you see in the film? I don't see any. But any movie produced in Germany during Nazi rule has connotations simply because of where and...
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Quote:But any movie produced in Germany during Nazi rule has connotations simply because of where and when it was produced. I don't agree. I think that such things have to actually be IN the film. I...
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Even a director like Veit Harlan, much more compromised with the Nazi regime ("The Jew Süss", 1940) than was - eventually - Josef von Baky, made during the same period some movies that I do not have...
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Er, guys - I think you're vehemently agreeing with me here...http://www.MJSimpson.co.uk - cult movies and the people who make them
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Quote:Er, guys - I think you're vehemently agreeing with me here... I don't think so. You said: Quote:any movie produced in Germany during Nazi rule has connotations simply because of where and when...
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