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...Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss and Lola - by the dissolute genius of German cinema, who died in 1982 at age 37. The films make an indispensable trilogy that charts the history of postwar Germany in terms set by the vivid melodramas that Fassbinder adored. (BRD stands for Bundesrepublik Deutschland - German for West Germany.) Among the more than three hours of documentaries and specially produced features on disc four are exceptionally lucid interviews with Fassbinder's three stars, Hanna Schygulla, Rosel Zech and Barbara Sukowa. The audio commentary on Maria Braun is by director Wim Wenders and Michael Ballhaus, Fassbinder...
...comes good. Take for instance the cast of royalties on Mein Kampf. They are collected each year, in the English speaking world, by the London literary agents Curtis Brown. And each year, these honest Englishmen bring the money over to the German Embassy. The canny diplomats of the Bundesrepublik refuse to accept it (as do the Argentines). Brown's therefore use it to pay the rent. Their landlords: The Jewish Charities of London...
Never before had the myth of German cleanliness been questioned so rudely, and the Bundesrepublik erupted in indignant protest. In a full-page advertisement in West Germany's weekly magazine Der Spiegel, a family of three was shown in impeccable dress-but all with pigs' faces. Beneath them were the words: "This year, in the average German family, the child will wear his underwear four days, the wife five days and the husband seven days." The ad was placed by the obviously phony "Action Committee for Fresh Underwear," presumably an invention of German soft-goods manufacturers...
...past, it has almost always let Ulbricht present the East Bloc's terms. The note repeats Moscow's apparent willingness to recognize the four-power partition of Berlin as permanent, provided that Bonn's politicians stop speaking of West Berlin as part of the Bundesrepublik and reduce their visits to the city...
...sales. Last year Daimler-Benz, the manufacturer of Mercedes, sold a record $1.2 billion worth of cars and trucks -a 5.9% increase over the previous year-and is doing even better this year. As every German knows, what is good for the Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft is good for the Bundesrepublik...