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Article: Weimar Cinema's Greatest Hits.(Home Video)
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- Cineaste
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- June 22, 1995
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As the century draws to a close, Weimar Germany increasingly seems the principal crucible of our modernity. Far more than France or the Soviet Union of the 1920s, the ill-fated Weimar Republic feels closer to us. Dynamic and unstable, productive and destructive in strikingly contemporary ways, the period - its innovations as well as its crises - resonate in all too familiar ways, even after allowances for the obvious differences are made. Over the course of its thirteen-year existence, a weak, democratic, ostensibly socialist (but actually reformist) regime foundered on the enormity of the social tasks it faced and yielded to an ominous coalition of forces bent on the ...