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Land and Freedom (1995)
About this killing a Priest
There is much said about this film and so I only want to point out one thing. It is the Stalinist propaganda that tells the story that the anarchists and trotskyst slaughtered thousands of priests and burned down nearly all the churches in Spain and because of that the deeply religious people of Spain turned against socialism and so it was necessary for the Soviet Union to purge the International Brigades and the different groups who fought for the republic. It's brilliant how Loach turn this Stalinist propaganda into an argument against Stalin and for the trotskyst POUM by showing that the priest who is killed, is a brutal fascists and that all non-fascist inhabitants of that village agree with the execution of that priest. With that scene Loach is saying that those people who are against the actions against the church are in fact that ones who don't get along with the opinion of the so called "deeply religious people of Spain".
There are many more definite parts of the film against Stalinism but since I had a loud and heavy argument with a Stalinist about the Spanish Civil War I specially like this one.
Vier Mädel aus der Wachau (1957)
Antel's best
This is certainly the best film the glorious Duo Antel-Nachmann have made. And not only because of the great Hans Moser. Though the film with it's superb Jokes, it's funny songs and the more or less attractive lead actors doesn't look like it, but it is a parable about Fascism and Second World War.
The two twins are forced by the mayor who speaks all the time about "Organisation" to work for the town without any payment. They are not allowed to leave town or to do what they want in there short free time. In the end they have to work from dawn till dusk an have no free time at all. At that point they go on strike and resist the fascist mayor and after a whole lot of action the Americans come and end fascism. But, and that is the finale of the film, the American marries the mayor and so the old forces remain powerful tough they are on the leash of the Americans.