For all lovers of German cinema - it's totally back! Visually, artistically, musically.
I enjoyed Deutschland 83 and its variants enormously but this is a whole new dimension.
Grab Siegfried Kracauer's FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER together with Otto Friedrich's BEFORE THE DELUGE and read every word again; then luxuriate in this masterpiece of longform television.
The directors - totally immersed in the period - spoil us with iris shots, shadows, distorted angles and so on to ground the visuals. It's Fritz Lang crossed with Murnau, Pabst and Wiene.
This amazing series is an homage to and a lament for Weimar Germany with LOTS OF DANCING.
We know what is waiting in the wings and sadly it isn't just Zarah Leander.
I enjoyed Deutschland 83 and its variants enormously but this is a whole new dimension.
Grab Siegfried Kracauer's FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER together with Otto Friedrich's BEFORE THE DELUGE and read every word again; then luxuriate in this masterpiece of longform television.
The directors - totally immersed in the period - spoil us with iris shots, shadows, distorted angles and so on to ground the visuals. It's Fritz Lang crossed with Murnau, Pabst and Wiene.
This amazing series is an homage to and a lament for Weimar Germany with LOTS OF DANCING.
We know what is waiting in the wings and sadly it isn't just Zarah Leander.