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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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Inhalt: |
Based on the controversial and best-selling novel by Hugo Bettauer, H.K. Breslauer'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 NationaI 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 population-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 stylisticaIly influenced 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 fiIm is part of the reason it no Ionger screened in public after 1933, all compIete prints were thought to be destroyed. Now, thanks to the discovery of a nitrate print at a Paris fIea market in 2015, as weII as to the briIIiant restoration efforts of the Filmarchiv Austria, this previousIy incomplete film can once again be appreciated in it's unfortunately ever-reIevant entirety. |
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