Author: Karel Veliky

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Just two months after the victory of the National Socialist German Workers Party in the March 1933 elections and the subsequent “takeover” of power, the Film Credit Bank was established in Germany (the NSDAP had had a film division since 1930). In order to free the local film industry from the direct or indirect influence of Jewish capital [1] and revive film production affected by the global financial crisis, it will cover up to 70% of production costs and contribute to 22 feature films and short films by the end of the year. (more…)

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From Siegfried to Triumph of the Will: Impulses of the Avant-Garde

The most distinctive artistic language of pre-revolutionary German cinema is expressionism. Silent films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene), The Tired Death (1921, dir. Fritz Lang) and Nosferatu (1922, dir. Friedrich W. Murnau), and even earlier, The Student of Prague (1913, dir. Paul Wegener) and Homunculus (1916, dir. Otto Rippert), are striking not only for the fantastical nature of their themes and the macabre nature of their plots, which refer to “black romanticism”, but above all for their overall atmosphere. (more…)

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Il cinema è l´arma più forte.
-B. Mussolini

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Artekrati

Italy had already enjoyed a famous and successful era of silent films, (more…)

“Cinematography is the most powerful weapon”

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Translated by Ondrej Mann.

Films have played a significant role in shaping the 20th century man and continue to do so today. We have therefore decided to identify some trends, titles, and names in cinema that a “man of a certain type” should be familiar with. (more…)