The director : a novel / Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Ross Benjamin.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Summit Books, 2025Edition: First Summit Books hardcover editionDescription: 333 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9781668087794
- 1668087790
- Lichtspiel. English.
- Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975- Lichtspiel. English
- Pabst, G. W. (Georg Wilhelm), 1885-1967 -- Fiction
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- Propaganda, German -- Fiction
- Austria -- History -- 1938-1945 -- Fiction
- MEASURING THE WORLD BOOKER PRIZE WWII TYLL ADOLF HITLER 1920S GOLDEN AGE OF CINEMA THIRD REICH GERMANY BASED ON TRUE STORY 1930S TWENTIETH CENTURY ANTHONY DOERR DICTATORSHIP FILM HISTORY GRETA GARBO NAZI JOSEPH GOEBBELS GIFTS FOR DADS PROPAGANDA
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Translation of: Lichtspiel.
"G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him. When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels--the minister of propaganda in Berlin--sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels's thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement."--
In English, translated from the German.
