Monday | March 20, 2000 9:00 pm

Germany Awake!
(Deutschland, erwache!)

Screening on Film

Directed by Erwin Leiser.
Germany, 1968, 16mm, black & white, 90 min.
English and German with English subtitles.

This absorbing documentary on the German motion picture industry and its use as a tool for propaganda was produced by the great German film historian Erwin Leiser. Among the many feature film excerpts included are Dawn (1933), Jud Süss (1940), The Rothschilds (1940), and The Great King (1942). This critical compilation was instrumental in exposing, for the first time, the productions and methods of the Third Reich to a worldwide audience.