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Article: Great dictation: Norman Kleeblatt on Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary. (Film).(Movie Review)
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- Artforum International
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- January 1, 2003
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AS I SLID INTO MY SEAT at Alice Tully Hall for the New York Film Festival screening of Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, I noticed the auditorium was only one-third occupied. A man behind me remarked, "I guess this isn't a big seller." I wondered why anyone would expect that a documentary about an unknown Nazi factotum like Traudl Junge would sell out. Who wants to know about the intricacies and intimacies of Adolf Hitler's daily schedule? Who cares what this heinous criminal ate for dinner, how he related to his girlfriend, or to his dog? More to the point, who could bear to witness this naive, amoral functionary who served Hitler as stenographer, typist, file clerk?
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