The Nasty Girl
Screening on Film
Directed by Michael Verhoeven.
With Lena Stoltze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner.
West Germany, 1989, 35mm, color and b&w, 94 min.
German with English subtitles.
Print source: Harvard Film Archive
With Lena Stoltze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner.
West Germany, 1989, 35mm, color and b&w, 94 min.
German with English subtitles.
Print source: Harvard Film Archive
H is for Historical Revision
After a Bavarian schoolgirl writes an award-winning essay that earns her a trip to Paris she decides to follow up her efforts with a piece on the history of her town. In the process, she discovers some nasty secrets about her forefathers and their complicity with the Nazis. Despite the hostility and ostracism she and her family experience, she remains undeterred in her pursuit of the village’s darkest secrets. Verhoeven’s clever use of visual techniques such as rear-screen projection provides an ironic commentary on the false facade of normalcy projected by Germany at the end of the Cold War. The film was based on the writings of Anja Rosmus, a young writer who discovered direct links to Hitler and Eichmann in her hometown of Passau.
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