PG Kino Screening: Wednesday April 14, 2010
7:30PM Lewis Auditorium (Goldwin Smith Hall)
Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)
Dir. Fritz Hippler (Germany, 1940)
62 min.
In German with English subtitles
Arguably the most notorious propaganda film produced under the supervision of Joseph Goebbels and the Reich Propaganda Department of the Nazi regime, Der ewige Jude was released in 1940 with the subtitle, “A cinematic contribution to the problem of world Jewry.” While asserting itself as a documentary, the film makes use of fabricated statistics and photomontage techniques to achieve its devastating ends. Describing the effect of the film on an audience, Erwin Leiser wrote in 1968 that it was able to “turn honest citizens into indulgent mass murderers.”
In this series on the genre of Documentary, we will view this historically significant film considering the claims to factuality made in its narrative in relation to formal elements. Introductory remarks will center on the motif of Epidemic exploited in the film.
Preceded by an introduction and followed by an open discussion
Free and open to the public
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