2002
DOI: 10.5117/9789053565988
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Film Front Weimar : Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933)

Abstract: To KlazienThe translation of this book was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

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“…The Bismarckian Germany which apparently exhibited great omnipotence after emerging from a scattered conglomeration of states in 1871 now seemed a receding memory, shattered by the loss of more than 2 million lives in World War I and the official bearing of blame for the war by the imposition of the Paris peace treaty. 22 The 1920s had also witnessed a strong contradiction: a section of German society that wanted to replace the old Wilhemite military and aristocratic networks with a democratic system that emphasized cooperation with other European powers, and a significant element that wanted to use its smoldering resentment as a catalyst for regaining the old omnipotence. 23 Given the complexities of the situation, it is not surprising that, as many scholars note, the ambiguous feelings of a defeated Germany came out in the surrealist cinema movement of the postwar era.…”
Section: Westfront 1918 and The Shattering Of German Omnipotencementioning
confidence: 98%
“…The Bismarckian Germany which apparently exhibited great omnipotence after emerging from a scattered conglomeration of states in 1871 now seemed a receding memory, shattered by the loss of more than 2 million lives in World War I and the official bearing of blame for the war by the imposition of the Paris peace treaty. 22 The 1920s had also witnessed a strong contradiction: a section of German society that wanted to replace the old Wilhemite military and aristocratic networks with a democratic system that emphasized cooperation with other European powers, and a significant element that wanted to use its smoldering resentment as a catalyst for regaining the old omnipotence. 23 Given the complexities of the situation, it is not surprising that, as many scholars note, the ambiguous feelings of a defeated Germany came out in the surrealist cinema movement of the postwar era.…”
Section: Westfront 1918 and The Shattering Of German Omnipotencementioning
confidence: 98%
“…Een goede oorlogsfilm moest documentairemateriaal bevatten, stilistisch een eenheid vormen en historisch betrouwbaar zijn. 48 Dawn voldeed aan de eerste twee punten, maar over het laatste punt bestond onenigheid. Dit werd ook aangegrepen door verschillende keuringscommissies, omdat in hun ogen de executiescène in strijd was met de goede zeden.…”
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