dinsdag, 24 februari
Ciné Interzone: A Time to Love and a Time to Die
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A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE 1958
Directed by Douglas Sirk
132 minutes
In English
The German-born, Hollywood film director Douglas Sirk was best known for his gut-wrenching, complex, and often against the mainstream melodramas. He had his own vision of what cinema could be, and also somehow managed to get quite big budgets for his films. This one, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), is considered to be one of the best of his career.
This movie takes an unusual stance... it follows the lives of the Germans at the end of WWII. In other words, this is about German lives, not Americans. Very unusual. The film centers on Ernst Gräber, a soldier in the Russian-German Front who is allowed a short leave from fighting. With the little time he has, he goes back to his hometown of Hamburg and discovers the city has been smashed to rubble by American air-raids. He tries to find traces of the people he once knew. While he is there, he meets Elisabeth, and the movie unfolds.
Produced on a grand scale in wide-screen CinemaScope, with beautiful colors and set decors. Besides riveting performances by the lead actors, the film also has cameos by Klaus Kinski and Erich Maria Remarque (the writer).
This will be a high-definition projection.
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- film
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- 3-5 €