Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Pier Paolo Pasolini is a film festival of contradictions. An avowed Communist and atheist, he made his most celebrated movie an evocation of Christian drama: The Gospel According to St. Matthew. In his newest film, Teorema (English translation: Theorem), Pasolini takes images of voluptuous beauty and physical love and turns them into a film of suppurating ugliness, most of it unintentional...
...mercy of a memory that haunts us through history with its murmuring of guilt and horror. We must cut ourselves off from the terrors of the past, and Ungaretti's prophetic, guttural voice is the sign of that attempt. And innocence, the breaking off of memory, is not a Christian innocence, not piety, but a form which affirmation takes. "Innocence," Ungaretti writes, "we have learned of what it's made. It has appeared before us, and kept us beneath its still vast wings, through the disorders of our lives." JAMES ATLAS
Last week the West German government refused to allow the yet unpunished Nazis to go scot free and thus continue to taint the entire German people by their presence. After a tense ten-hour debate, the Grand Coalition Cabinet of Christian Democrats and Socialists decided with only one dissenting vote, to abolish the statute of limitations on murder. Otherwise, the statute would have gone into effect on Dec. 31 and would have rendered war criminals immune to future prosecution...
...Distinction. The main debate in the Cabinet centered on the issue of who in the future should be regarded as a war criminal. Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger argued that "our job is to bring to justice the mass murderer, the beast in human form." Most of his Christian Democrat ministers favored excluding from the war crime category those Germans whose offenses were relatively small and who had only been following orders. But the Social Democrats held that it was impossible to make such a distinction and their view prevailed. In fact, the Cabinet agreed to remove the statute of limitations from...
...bill will now go to the Bundesrat, the upper house, where it probably will have swift passage. In the Bundestag, there may be some opposition from the Bavarian affiliates of the Christian Democrats, one of whose ministers cast the sole nein vote in the Cabinet session. But the majority of the Bundestag seemed prepared to endorse the Grand Coalition's plan to shift the guilt in Germany more specifically upon the shoulders of those who actually committed the crimes...