Leader and Seducer confronts audiences with the crimes of their bystander ancestors as Germany’s current political climate becomes unsettled
In the darkened Berlin cinema, the first voice to speak sounds like a friendly Austrian country priest.Actor Robert Stadlober, in a relentless and restless performance as the great Nazi seducer, asks early on: “Does anyone know who Stalin’s propaganda chief is, or Churchill’s? Everyone knows who Goebbels is.”Carnage at Gaza school compound adds to mounting death toll at UN buildingsEight decades after his suicide, this hack turned spindoctor remains a household name.
“The question of how this could happen is not part of our past but our present,” said Joachim A Lang, director and screenwriter, at the premiere. “We are living in a time where far-right populists are on the rise and anti-Semitic crimes and the Third Reich are trivialised.” For Lang, this was a risk worth taking. After decades of holding up a mirror to the German population – with mixed results – he confronts audiences with the actual crimes of their bystander ancestors, and the real charm of their criminal leaders.
With a remarkable attention to detail – make-up, lighting and clever editing – Lang finds a back door to recreate and deconstruct the original Nazi propaganda – and its mastermind.
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