Forbidden Films

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Forbidden Films

2014

1h 34m

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Filmmaker Felix Moeller interviews film historians and filmmakers to determine the fate of the archive of Nazi films.

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Mark Jenkins

NPR

Forbidden Films offers fascinating clips from such notorious efforts as The Eternal Jew, Jew Suss and The Rothschilds. All were made to incite anti-Semitic passions and justify Nazi atrocities.

May 14, 2015

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Farran Smith Nehme

New York Post

Of more than 1,200 films produced under the Nazi regime, to this day Germany bans about 40 it has deemed dangerous propaganda. Why that is so, and whether it does any good, is the ostensible subject of Felix Moeller's documentary.

Rated: 3/4

May 14, 2015

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

This is a documentary fascinated with and fearful of cinema's potency, but it's also devoted to the idea of open discourse, a stance that underlines the urgency of thinking about film critically.

May 14, 2015

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Michael J. Casey

Boulder Weekly

Cinema verboten.

Aug 19, 2019

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Francine Prose

The New York Review of Books

Moeller's documentary has taken an important step toward opening a discussion that can only be more useful than silence, or than the warehousing of these films in a structure where they remain unseen, prohibited-and liable to explode.

Jun 16, 2017

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

A frustrating movie in some ways, but an important reminder of the power of cinema to manipulate and seduce us, and not always for the better.

Jun 1, 2015

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The greatest 01 hour: and 34 minutes with real footage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Forbidden films documents the propaganda films of the Nazis, with extensive clips, descriptions and a discussion of how Germany still struggles with the question of when and how to show them. There are no easy answers and the films are fascinatingly insidious, somewhat absurd, yet intense. The questions linger and the answers are not as simple as they seem.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Felix Moeller interviews film historians and filmmakers to determine the fate of the archive of Nazi films.

Director: Felix Moeller
Producer: Amelie Latscha, Felix Moeller
Screenwriter: Felix Moeller
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: German
Release Date (Streaming): May 15, 2018
Runtime: 1h 34m

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