Monday | April 3, 2000 9:00 pm

The False Step
(Der Schritt vom Wege)

Screening on Film

Directed by Gustaf Gründgens.
With Marianne Hoppe, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Paul Hartman.
Germany, 1939, 35mm, black & white, 101 min.
German with English subtitles.

Theodore Fontane’s tale of a woman who forsakes respectability and obligation in the name of personal happiness, famously remade by Fassbinder in the 1970s, indicts the strict codes of an unbending Prussian order. The film represented a challenge for Nazi observers since party logic dictated that the tragic figure must be the betrayed officer-husband; but Marianne Hoppe’s performance as Effi was so engagingly sympathetic one had no problem understanding why she had strayed.

March 6 – April 25, 2000

The False Step
(Der Schritt vom Wege)

Part of film series

Films in the Third Reich: The Power of Images and Illusions Screenings

Part of film series

Films in the Third Reich: The Power of Images and Illusions Screenings

Screenings from this program March 2000

Monday06March

Kautschuk

Tuesday07March

The Emperor of California

Tuesday14March

The Broken Jug

Monday20March

Germany Awake!

Tuesday21March

UFA: Myth and Truth

April 2000

Monday03April

The False Step

Tuesday04April

La Habañera

Tuesday11April

Titanic

Sunday16April

The Great Sacrifice

Tuesday18April

Münchhausen

Sunday23April

Under the Bridges

Tuesday25April

Romance in a Minor Key

Screenings from this program
March 2000