Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It by John Green & Bruni de la Motte

Author:John Green & Bruni de la Motte [Green, John & de la Motte, Bruni]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Artery Publications
Published: 2015-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

[44] These are just three the many that were banned from being shown in West Germany. Even the great Italian director, Vittoria de Sica’s film I sequestrati di Altona (The Condemned of Altona), based on Sartre’s Huis Clos, was censored and all references to the Nazis removed. Alain Resnais’ short documentary, Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) about the Nazi concentration camps, made to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the end of the war, was condemned by the West German government and it made an official complaint to the French government that showing the film ‘would be an obstacle to the reconciliation of the two peoples’. As a result, the film was withdrawn from competition at the Cannes Film Festival under much protest. During the first five years of the Federal Republic the public screening of several hundred films were banned for political reasons, but the files relating to this are still secret. This was all part of the post-war ideological struggle, the inevitable clash of the two systems, but this aspect is conveniently forgotten today.

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