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    Cinema and the Shoah, an Evening with Jean-Michel Frodon

    Cinema and the Shoah, an Evening with Jean-Michel Frodon

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    March 22, 2010

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    A renowned film critic, scholar, and former editor of Cahiers du cinema, Jean-Michel Frodon is also a respected historian of cinematic representations of the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews. On the occasion of the English translation of his edited anthology Cinema and the Shoah, Frodon will present and discuss one of the few WWII-era Hollywood features to present Nazi ideology realistically, as an example of what Hannah Arendt famously phrased the “banality of evil:” Andre de Toth's None Shall Escape. Shot in 1943, None Shall Escape already looks forward to a future where Nazi war criminals are put on trial. After first presenting Wilhelm Grimm as a prisoner charged with “crimes against humanity,” the film flashes back to the end of World War I to detail the process by which an ordinary man becomes a Nazi party leader. Besides its historical reality, None Shall Escape’s stark vision of a fascist state is given a chilling psychological realism by Alexander Knox’s brilliant embodiment of the fictional Grimm, a kind of Nazi everyman, and by the frightening details of the Nazi atrocities depicted, which were verified by the State Department, a standard practice during the war years.


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        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        March 22, 2010

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        7pm

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