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An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass muderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the killing of thousands of people in Russia. He also “invented” an evil technique of eliminating political prisoners: the manipulated suicide. Thomas Harlan reconstructs the history of a burocratic muderer, he also develops a direct connection between the Nationalsocialism and the treatment of prisoners of the RAF terrorists in the Stuttgart isolation prison. Robert Kramer filmed the shooting of Harlan’s Wundkanal: Notre Nazidocuments a social experiment in which the children of Nazis and of victims meet a real culprit. The reality seems to be stronger that the fiction in Harlan’s film.

Wundkanal.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/85BDFF5591FCE70/Wundkanal.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, French, German

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This is the content of the second disc of Wandersplitter aka Moving Shrapnel, in which
Thomas Harlan revists his film and literary work.It is much more than an extra and more something like a second chapter to the first movie(here: link) which focuses more on Harlan’s life.

The two movies that are discussed are Torre Bela, which Harlan filmed during revolutionary uprisings in Portugal in the 70s and his (in)famous Wundkanal, an experiment which in an uncomfortable way explores the limits of art. Robert Kramer
made a movie about Wundkanal calld Notre Nazi.

Sadly the discussed movies were not part of the DVD but you get to see many outtakes.

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Language:German
Subtitles:English

The post Christoph Hübner – Thomas Harlan – Wandersplitter aka Moving Shrapnel [Extra] (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Thomas Harlan, filmmaker, author and revolutionary was born in 1929 in Germany. His father was the infamous propaganda filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of Jew Suess. During his childhood, as a result of his father’s closeness to the Nazi Party, the little Thomas came face to face with Hitler and Goebbels. Now an old frail man, Harlan lives in a respiratory clinic in Berchtesgaden. It is in this clinic in South Germany that he, along with documentary filmmaker Christoph Hübner, examines fragments of his past.

After the Second World War Harlan moved to Berlin and then to France. He met with Gilles Deleuze and Klaus Kinski, wrote plays, poetry and prose, engaged in left wing discourses and in 1959 in Poland he began archival research into the National Socialist regime. This research led to the prosecution of more than 2,000 German war criminals. The pieces of Harlan’s life revealed to us in this fascinating documentary are, he says, like shrapnel: they enter the body violently and can cause long-term pain and aggravation.

“I came across Thomas Harlan for the first time in the course of a retrospective of his films at the Munich Film Museum. For a longer period of time, I had myself been working on the subject of ‘children and grand-children of the Nazi Period.’ I drove to Munich to meet Thomas Harlan and we decided to work on a film together.” (Christoph Hübner)

the second movie(here: link)

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English sub idx

The post Christoph Hübner – Thomas Harlan – Wandersplitter aka Thomas Harlan – Moving Shrapnel (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In 1984, the West German film director Thomas Harlan (maker of Torre Bela [1976] and author of the novel Rosa [2000]), directed Wundkanal: Execution for Four Voices, a joint French-German production about Dr S, a soldier impeached after the war for taking part in the massacre of Jews in Lithuania, and his slide towards suicide. To express his resistance to the forgetting of Nazism as war criminals aged, Harlan cast Alfred Filbert – an actual member of the SS during the War who spoke only German – as Dr S for this experimental fiction film shot in a French studio. (7) Filbert was not aware of what was to happen on set, in front of the camera, mor that the script was merely a pretext or ruse for a psychodramatic ‘happening’: Harlan, in fact, intended to interrogate and expose, ‘live’, his complicity with Nazi atrocities.

Kramer collaborated with Harlan on the project. He recorded scenes of filming, interviewed the cast and crew. Later, he turned these into the independent project Our Nazi. Both this film and Harlan’s were screened for the first time at the Venice Film Festival in 1984, and reappeared together at the Berlin Film Festival in 1985. The fact that Harlan’s father Veit Harlan was a film director who had made the film Jud Süss (1940) was a major factor in the reception accorded the film: ‘Harlan’s hatred of his father resembles, strangely enough, an inverted love; and Kramer’s film, titled Our Nazi with intentional irony, obliges us to ask ourselves: who is the Nazi in this story?’ (8) The West German production team decided to postpone general screening of the film; it has rarely surfaced since.

Why did such a scandal occur? Kramer: ‘Let’s say, in a way, most films we watch are fascist because they are seductive enough to make you lose your sense of responsibility … we certainly did not want that kind of seduction.’ (9) ‘I just wanted to stand this test — to face this “pleasant”, bureaucratic gentleman, and capture the jurisdiction of suffering before authority, over comrades, the director, the Fuhrer.’ (10) Ultimately, Harlan’s hopes for Wundkanal were betrayed; the film operates on a logic of exclusion backed by the ‘authority’ of the director (Harlan himself) and the support he gets from his team – as he effectively prosecutes/persecutes Filbert. This ‘trial’ was itself interpreted as itself a lingering expression of Nazi ideology. In this sense, Harlan, Kramer and their contemporary German Jewish-American colleagues are all ‘German’. Our Nazi shows Kramer’s own issues leaping back at him, as in a mirror. We should view this work not only as an impeachment of Veit Harlan’s son, but also as a deeply self-critical testament.

Our Nazi was, in many respects, a transitional film for Kramer – it was, for instance, his first attempt at using Hi-8 video and at shooting all the footage himself. Although rigorously edited, the insertions of dramatic footage, and the clash of viewpoints (Kramer’s versus Harlan’s), resolve themselves into an uncomfortable kind of ‘message’ picture. It was not until the ‘90s, in films such as Leeward (Sous le vent, 1991), Point de départ/Starting Place (1993) and SayKomSa (1998), that Kramer started to wield his camera like a pen. These are masterpieces that fully express the filmmaker’s mentality and show how the artist sees the world. But there is room for debate about whether or not Our Nazi offers a suitable way of taking root in and transmitting the world. This is a different issue from the strategically guided propaganda that is central to films like Shoah (1985); it is another dimension altogether, a matter of higher aesthetic ethics. And it is these more complex areas that the films of European Trilogy explore.

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https://nitro.download/view/7A13EAEFDF89544/Notre_Nazi.mkv

Language(s):German, French
Subtitles:English, German for the non German parts

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