Forbidden Films

Unnerving...this is a documentary fascinated with and fearful of cinema's potency, but it's also devoted to the idea of open discourse.
-- Nicolas Rapold, New York Times

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Forbidden Films

Twelve hundred feature films were made in Germany’s Third Reich. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. Nearly seventy years after the end of the Nazi regime, more than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix Moeller (Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss) interviews German film historians, archivists and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Utilizing clips from the films and recorded discussions from public screenings (permitted in Germany in educational contexts) in Munich, Berlin, Paris and Jerusalem, Moeller shows how contentious these 70-year-old films remain, and how propaganda can retain its punch when presented to audiences susceptible to manipulation. —Telluride Film Festival
Not Rated
Genre
Culture Vulture, Documentary, History
Web Site
http://www.zeitgei…
Runtime
94
Language
German
Director
Felix Moeller
FEATURED REVIEW
Mark Jenkins, NPR

At the beginning of Forbidden Films, documentarian Felix Moeller's camera warily contemplates a fortified bunker. The contents are, a curator warns, "literally explosive" — Nazi propaganda films on highly flammable nitrocelluloid stock. The sequence is suitably ominous, but it turns out that the ...

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