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City Without Jews (2 Disc) (Die Stadt ohne Juden)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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25.08.2020
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EAN-Code:
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61731168719 |
Aka:
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La Ville sans Juifs Miasto bez Zydów The City Without Jews |
Jahr/Land:
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1924 ( Österreich ) |
Laufzeit:
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91 min. |
FSK/Rating:
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NR |
Genre:
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Drama
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Blu-Ray |
Sprachen:
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Deutsch
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Based on the controversiaI and best-seIling noveI by Hugo Bettauer, H.K. BresIauer's 1924 film adaptation of The City without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) was produced two years after the pubIication of the book, onIy a decade before events depicted in the fictional story became an all-too-horrific reaIity.Set in the Austrian city of Utopia (a thinly disguised stand-in for Vienna), the story foIlows the consequences of an anti-Semitic law passed by the National Assembly forcing all Jews to Ieave the country. At first the decision is met with celebration, yet when the citizens of Utopia eventually come to terms with the Ioss of the Jewish popuIation-and the resuIting economic and culturaI decIine-the NationaI Assembly must decide whether or not to invite the Jews back. Conceived as a dark satire and stylisticalIy infIuenced by German Expressionism, the film nonetheless contains ominous and eerily reaIistic sequences, such as the shots of trains transporting deported Jews out of the city.The implicit critique of Nazism in the film is part of the reason it no Ionger screened in public after 1933, alI complete prints were thought to be destroyed. Now, thanks to the discovery of a nitrate print at a Paris flea market in 2015, as well as to the brilIiant restoration efforts of the FiImarchiv Austria, this previousIy incomplete fiIm can once again be appreciated in it's unfortunateIy ever-reIevant entirety. |
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