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The Council of the Gods [Der Rat der Götter, Kurt Maetzig/East Germany 1950]
This is an East German propaganda film based on Richard Sasuly’s book IG Farben from 1947. Sasuly was one of the first to write and investigate the implication of Big Business oligarchy in the Nazi War effort. His book is not easy to find – so I would recommend a look at the detailed notes…
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Come and See (1985)
During WWII, a Belarusian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces. The film’s title derives from Chapter 6 of The Apocalypse of John, in which “Come and see” is said in the first, third, fifth and seventh verses as an invitation to…