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Article: Berlin Film Festival faces up to the ghosts of World War II.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- February 19, 2001
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BERLIN _ The past is never really past, William Faulkner once wrote, and that's never been truer than with the Berlin Film Festival, which ended Sunday.
Like the Deep South, Berlin is still struggling with a haunted history that's impossible to ignore. And to its credit, the 51st international film festival has been willing to face that past: "Enemy at the Gates," the festival's opening-night movie, looked at one of Germany's biggest defeats, the World War II battle for Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-43.
"Berlin Babylon," a documentary, explored the East-West tensions in the building of Potsdamer Platz, the architecturally exquisite new neighborhood ...