Nazi Cinema: Films

The way in which Munchhausen was put together as a film as a whole was both fascinating and mildly disconcerting at times. Although the jis...

Münchhausen is framed as the telling of the diary of the baron, by the baron. Even moreso, he acknowledges the existence of a storybook tell...

For this blog I chose the announcement from Joseph Goebbels on 9 October 1933 in which the head propagandist said, “We National Socialists ...

Carithershosch's post discusses the peculiarity of correlation between the release of romance in a minor key and the war's turning p...

When analyzing the appendix in Rentschler’s book, I found it interesting that Romance in a Minor Key was produced in 1943, th...

Going through the appendix of the year 1940, the thing that stroke me most was that Himmler ordered the establishment of a Concentration Cam...

It is astounding that Goebbel's allowed this film to be shown, and even more fascinating of his allowance of a banned screenwriter to pr...

When looking at the list of films and events, it is striking the number of films that came out during the years 1940-1945. It is also surp...

When looking through this chronology this event caught my eye almost immediately. Frankly, I was not quite sure how to react to it. On Novem...

This week, review the chronology of films and events from 1940-1945 in Rentschler's Appendix. Find one event, film, industry event, or p...

The narrative frame of “Munchausen” was one that’s purpose was to totally distract the viewer from the misery and war that Germany was curre...

By framing the main narrative of Münchhausen, it effectively diminished the fantastic elements, because I just attributed all of the strange...

In my opinion there are two frame devices that have to be regarded watching Münchhausen. The first one is circumstances under which it was p...

The narrative framework of the entire movie is centered around a distortion of reality and the creation of a world of fantasy. This is first...

The narrative framework in this movie was quite interesting and sometimes a bit confusing to me. It might have been the extravagent use of ...

The film's framing purposely redirects the audience to remember better times and escape from the present. Baron von Munchausen (sp?) liv...

Munchhausen stands out as a film drastically different from those we have seen thus far, mainly due to the fact that it is unapologetically...

It is intriguing that Baron von Münchhausen can function as the hero in this Nazi era film. Not only does he spend his time traveling around...

I find it really interesting that Rentschler brings to light the issue of the contrast made in the film between Count Cagliost...

I have to say, the film was difficult to get into, the story line was choppy, and many of the things that were evidently supposed to be funn...

The narrative framing of the story was important in that it made us jump back to the past and reflect on it in terms of a more current time....

The way the narration of this film was set up, was very interesting. The fact that the people listening to this narration have know idea tha...

I found the narrative framework intriguing in the context of the film coming from the Nazi era.   The stories of Baron Münchausen had ...

Either take issue with Rentschler's reading of some scene in Münchhausen (1943), or discuss the operation of the film's narrative fr...