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Fables once proffered morals painlessly. Today they are seldom dispensed with as much ease except in a rare novel or motion picture. Such a picture is "Frieda" that may be considered all the more exceptional for having come out of war-scarred England. For "Frieda" convincingly expounds the moral that Germans are human beings and a blanket indictment of them or any people fails to recognize human differences. Hardly a palatable axiom in itself for many Englishmen today, but it becomes so at the hands of Swedish actress Mei Zetterling and a cast all of whom deserve equal plaudits...
Flora Robson carries the message of the picture as she gradually comes to realize that Naziism is not "in the blood" of Frieda, the fraulein whom her nephew married to repay for helping him escape from a German prison camp. Miss Zetterling portrays a hard-faced, stoical Frieda at first, but gradually develops her role of the misunderstood German girl, hated by the small English town into which she has been thrust, until her husband finally comes to know and love her as the warm, understanding person...
Other guest lecturers include Moshe Shertok, political head of the Jewish Agency and Frieda Kirchway, editor of The Nation...
...with a "dubious Romantic over-world." Lawrence's "phallic cult was a disaster to descriptive writing." "The world is not saved by novelists," Pritchett concludes. ". . . No one could possibly believe what Lawrence believed, and Lawrence hated people if they tried. . . . One day when Lawrence and [his wife] Frieda were out riding in Mexico, Frieda cried out, 'Oh, it's wonderful, wonderful to feel his great thighs moving, to feel his powerful legs!' 'Rubbish, Frieda,' Lawrence shouted back. 'Don't talk like that. You have been reading my books...
...wisest moralists and the best dramatists might exhaust themselves exploring the problem of war guilt, without coming to many unarguable conclusions. Such an attempt would be eminently worth everybody's attention. Even Frieda's stock characters and their stock attitudes could amount to something; but only if an intelligent attempt were made to get beneath their surfaces...