Obyknovennyi fashizm . Ordinary Fascism
Leipzig DOK Festival 1965 - Special Prize of the Jury (Long Footage Category) Romm's "Ordinary Fascism" pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s-1940s Europe, but also to a f...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian |
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Mosfilm
1965
Soviet Union |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:9dd6e516-ebe3-43ca-a5f2-841760ee89f9 |
| Summary: | Leipzig DOK Festival 1965 - Special Prize of the Jury (Long Footage Category)
Romm's "Ordinary Fascism" pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s-1940s Europe, but also to a firmest of convictions that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world. the film was released in 1965, in the Soviet Union's heyday at the height of the great societal and intellectual "thaw" that followed the Stalin's death and the denunciation of Stalin's totalitarianism by Nikita Khruschev. Never explicitly mentioning any of them explicitly, the film targets tyranny and despotism no matter what form they may take; the release of such a film would have been impossible under Stalin. |
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| Published: | 1965 |