Word: axel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commit a crime. He scorns David Ben-Gurion for saving his friendship with Konrad Adenauer in the face of Adenauer's appointment of Hans Globke as a cabinet minister. Globke wrote the commentaries to the Nuremberg race laws, Grass points out. He agrees with the German students who hate Axel Casar Springer, the press lord who preaches violence, who is a "co-chancellor, who is accountable to no Parliament, who cannot be voted out of office, and who has set up a state within a state..." But he does not agree with the students of the German S.D.S. in their...
...called the decision "outrageous." Robert Kempner, a former U.S. deputy chief of counsel at the Nürnberg Trials, who now lives in Frankfurt, described the ruling as "the greatest setback of German justice since 1945." For once, the New Left and the right-wing press of Axel Springer found themselves in agreement. Both condemned the judgment as outrageously lenient...
Director Gabriel Axel has stayed faithful to the saga form without being ponderous or literary. His shots and sequences flow into verses and chapters. Each segment is introduced by a lengthy, panoramic shot as the visual storyteller sets his scene...
...like the epic hero who must follow his own destiny to its fruition, Axel carries each sequence to a definite visual and dramatic conclusion. At the outset King Sigvor, who has slain their father, invites the sons of Hamund to make peace. Axel gives us separate sequences of them dressing their wounds, bathing, and drinking together, and ends with a slow pan across all the men sleeping side by side...
Content for the most part to let the story unfold before his camera, Axel also uses his editing to compound the violence that provides so much of the epic's power. The man-to-man battle scenes are uniquely agonizing (as well as bloody). Romance flows like blood on the beach of a fiord where pounding surf drowns out the horses' hoofbeats...