This 35mm screening, which will also be shown on March 13th and 19th, will be introduced tonight by Geoff Andrew as part of the 'Big Screen Classics' season.
Chicago Reader review:
A rhapsodic declaration of faith in communism, this German feature by screenwriter Bertolt Brecht and director Slatan Dudow was released in 1932 but banned a few months later, after Hitler came to power. Playing off documentary footage, Dudow and Brecht track the fortunes of a German family, arguing for solidarity among workers and wholesale rejection of both Nazism and social democracy in favor of a joyous communitarianism.
Don Druker
Here (and above) is an extract.
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