Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish emigrant to Sweden, 37-year-old Journalist-TV Producer Leiser made the film to answer "the questions of German young people" from whom, in his opinion, much has been veiled by the "unsatisfactory, evasive, shamefaced answers of parents and teachers." In eight weeks, nearly half a million people have seen Mein Kampf in West Germany. (It is also set for distribution in East Germany.) Audiences, in the main, consist of people under 40, and the popularity of the film tends to contradict the notion that West Germans are unwilling to concern themselves with the facts of the Hitler...
...three times and then spits them out as if he did not like the taste. This time, as befits his age and rancor, Actor Laughton is a shore-based admiral who, toward the beginning of World War II. directs the Royal Navy's search for a particularly destructive German submarine...
Gallantry is spread rather thickly by all hands-Laughton gives grudging tribute to his unseen opponent. Heflin behaves nobly to his captives-and eventually it becomes a little tiresome, even though the viewer knows that it is based on fact. (The German raider Atlantis bedeviled Allied shipping for most of 1940-41, and its captain-now NATO Admiral Bernhard Rogge-was so humane to his prisoners that some of them still correspond with him.) Eventually, the Atlantis is caught and sent to the bottom. The film, for all of Laughton's inspired snorting and Heflin's underplayed "Fire...
Stave & Stupa. Johnson's recent work (see color) shows how far he has gone in breaking new ground while finding imaginative uses for old forms. The haystack-shaped shrine, set in a Grecian court in New Harmony, Ind., was built as a memorial to the Harmonists, a German Separatist sect that assured its own extinction by faithfully practicing celibacy. But to Johnson it suggests the stave churches of Norway and the stupa forms of India. Without its name, the Nuclear Reactor Building in Israel could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems...
Written originally in German, Bacchanal is afflicted with a left-footed translation...