Unable to sleep I just saw this movie. It was not at all what I expected. I had always known that there had been a version on the story made long before Gilliam. But I didn’t expect it to be that well done, for a movie done by Nazi propagandists.
All the great costumes and epic scale of a DeMille picture, Disney like adventure farce, a bit of Twilight zone, plus a good bit of Benny Hill level good times, all based on a complex hero who was largely an amoral hedonist. I only wish I understood German better to understand all the context, because even what I know I could tell the subtitles didn’t do the dialogue justice(was the guy always talking about getting Braunschwieger a gay joke, or something else more subtle?)
There’s no link. Are you talking about the film directed by Josef von Baky?
If you are, it really wasn’t Nazi propaganda. Just a well-done fantasy film.
Nuts. I saw this on the program guide last night and thought it might be interesting, but my TiVo’s sort of on the full side these days so I didn’t record it. Sounds like I erred. With luck they’ll rebroadcast.
Yeah, fascinating. I had to wait for my boss to go out of town to order it for the store, but now of course he claims credit for adding it to the “collection.”