Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
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Part 7 of 7 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6)
Translated by Ondrej Mann
This post concludes the series of articles “We and Film,” “Neo-fascism in Film,” and “Sadonacism in Film,” which we have already published on Counter-Currents.
Despite the inflation of images, film is still for modern man what ritual, meditation, or prayer is for traditional man—it allows him to forget himself. (more…)
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Part 6 of 7 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
Translated by Ondrej Mann
The skinhead movement (which has already celebrated its 50th anniversary!) now has its own retro films. [1] Führer Ex (2002, dir. Winfried Bonengel) returns to Germany at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Two young men, “battered” by DDR prison, allow themselves to be drawn into the “hell of neo-Nazism” that emerged after the country’s reunification. (more…)
Moscow’s response to Romper Stomper.
Moscow’s response to Romper Stomper.
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Part 5 of 7 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
Translated by Ondrej Mann
The first film in which “neo-fascists” entered the new millennium—The Believer (2001, dir. Henry Bean)—actually deals mainly with the crisis of Jewish identity. Rebellious Jew Danny Balint (played by the sufficiently “Aryan-looking” Ryan Gosling) has been protesting against the senselessness of rigid dogmas in the faith of his race since childhood [1], (more…)
Mark’s Initiation Ritual (Skinheads)
Mark’s Initiation Ritual (Skinheads)
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Part 4 of 7 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Translated by Ondrej Mann
If we study Caesar’s statements, we find that the ancient Romans used the same methods against the tribes they enslaved as the fascists did in our time. Over two millennium, the means have not changed, only the techniques. I do not mean to say, of course, that humanity is the same as it was two thousand years ago, but we undoubtedly find disturbing similarities.
—Miklós Jancsó
Sweat, muscles, gym, “sieg-heil techno,” bodies, bodies, bodies, motto: Boia chi molla. [1] This is how the Italian film Skinheads (1993, dir. Claudio Fragasso) about the “crazy fashion” of skinheads begins. [2] (more…)
Betrayed
From Seven Days in January.
From Seven Days in January.
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Translated by Ondrej Mann
We can conclude that peace with the world itself is still impossible, even though the number of those who oppose it has decreased significantly. — Jean Cocteau (more…)
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Part 1 of 7 (Part 2)
Translated by Ondrej Mann
Original in Czech: https://deliandiver.org/neofasismus-ve-filmu-cast-1/
“Decadence is a necessary condition for renaissance. That is why I am very happy to live in a society where everything is collapsing. I think this process of decay is completely natural. It is the end of a certain phase of humanity. However, this process of decay needs to be accelerated; it is still too slow. We need to hasten the death of what is rotting. It is necessary to start all over again. To wipe the slate clean, to sweep everything away. There is no solution in continuity.”
—Federico Fellini
The first film dealing with the theme of neo-fascism or neo-Nazism is often considered to be the “spy drama” The Quiller Memorandum (1966, dir. Michael Anderson). (more…)
Malcolm McDowell as captain von Berkow
Malcolm McDowell as captain von Berkow
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Karel Veliky
Original in Czech: https://deliandiver.org/sadonacismus-ve-filmu-cast-4/
Translated by Ondrej Mann
“We must categorically reject the attempt, made primarily by W. Reich, to derive the instinct for destruction from the repression of the instinct for pleasure.”
—Julius Evola, Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex.
Visconti’s authority and the international success of his The Damned (see Part II) were reflected in the fact that in the early 1970s there was perhaps no film about “fascism” or “Nazis” that did not take into account their “sick sexuality.” The Conformist (1970, dir. B. Bertolucci), based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, depicts the behavior of a man (played by J. P. Trintignant), a weak-willed intellectual for whom the only acceptable way out of his own insecurities is to “merge with the totalitarian crowd.” (more…)
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Original in Czech: https://deliandiver.org/sadonacismus-ve-filmu-cast-3/
Translated by Ondrej Mann
In the 1960s, kiosk “pulp magazines” named after German military prison camps “Stalag” (short for the German Stammlager) became popular in Israel. Among other things, they aroused and titillated the sexual fantasies of Jewish men with alluring blondes in flattering uniforms that revealed their ample bosoms, “SS women” torturing and humiliating Anglo-American prisoners in every way possible.[1] (more…)
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Original in Czech: https://deliandiver.org/sadonacismus-ve-filmu-cast-2/
Translated by Ondrej Mann
“We are an elite society where anything goes.”
Visconti’s The Damned & Cavani’s The Night Porter
In every respect, the greatest film of this kind is The Damned (La caduta degli dei, 1969, directed by Luchino Visconti), which also started the whole “sadiconazista” wave, which is why we will stop at it for considerably longer than at the others. (more…)
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Original in Czech: https://deliandiver.org/sadonacismus-ve-filmu-cast-1/
Translated by Ondrej Mann (more…)
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New Europe
It is beyond our scope to provide even a brief overview of the state of cinema in each European country. We can only note that in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, and the Balkan countries, film production remained modest even in the pre-war years [1] and that while American and French films dominated continental Europe before the war, they were replaced by German and Italian films during the war. (more…)
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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
There are only a few films directly about the National Socialist party – that is, about “the Nazis”. The first of these, SA Mann Brand (1933, dir. Franz Seitz), appeared in the spring after the seizure of power and, coming from a Munich director of light comedies, was a purely opportunistic endeavor that did not even appeal to members of the SA. (more…)