Tag: historical films
Iranian animated film “The Siren” in the cinema: When the bombs fell – Culture
It’s been almost 25 years since an animated film freed the genre from having to exclusively tell fairy tales and fantasy material. In “Waltz with Bashir” in 2007, Israeli director…
"Napoleon" in the cinema: "Fire!"
Can you capture the vast life of Napoleon Bonaparte in a few hours of cinema full of the turmoil of war and the pain of love? Ridley Scott wouldn’t be…
“The Crown”: “The Queen died the day before my first day of filming” – Media
The sixth and final season airs on Thursday The Crown on, the acclaimed Netflix series about Queen Elizabeth II and the British royal family. At first Christian Schwochow (“The Tower”,…
“A whole life” in the cinema: Alpine destinies – culture
The old question of whether film can really add anything to literature quickly leads to the Kranzstockerhof bread bakery. This is never really described in Robert Seethaler’s slim alpine fate…
"My son, the soldier" in the cinema: buried history
Young, forcibly recruited Africans had to fight and die for France in the First World War. Superstar Omar Sy, whose family comes from Senegal, talks about this in “My Son,…
“Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert” in the cinema: Princess and Frog – Culture
It could have been so beautiful. When Max Frisch and Ingeborg Bachmann meet each other for the first time in Paris in 1958, she is wearing a pink silk dress,…
“The Shadow of Caravaggio” in the cinema: A whore as Madonna – culture
Bright light falls on the scene from the top right, almost bright, but not strong enough to illuminate the entire room. What you see: A dead woman, laid out, in…
"Oppenheimer" in the cinema: total failure
In “Oppenheimer” Christopher Nolan tells the story of the “father of the atomic bomb”. And this time the master director screwed it up thoroughly. source site
"Oppenheimer" in the cinema: total failure
In “Oppenheimer” Christopher Nolan tells the story of the “father of the atomic bomb”. And this time the master director screwed it up thoroughly. source site
Archeology drama “The Lost King”: Fuck you, Shakespeare! – Culture
It was a press conference whose pictures went around the world ten years ago. Bones had been found under a parking lot in Leicester, and now the results of the…