Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Hildegard Brucher, 28-year old city councillor thinks she is the only German student who had to be persuaded to come to Harvard this year under a U. S. government scholarship...
...also feels German primary education should be revamped along the American lines. She is anxious to see more student participation in forming a democratic Germany. And she is keeping up her journalism; she is now preparing an article on "How to Treat Communism in the United States...
...your seenes in Raly during the war. Throw in a big gob of partisans some mean-looking German soldiery, sprinkle liberally with social significance, squalling infants, breast women, and peasants and you might have "Paisan" or "Open City." But in this case you have "Outery," and you have a very fine motion picture...
Between better-than-average battle seenes and grave partisan conferences, the aristocrats are shown making merry, fleeing to Switzerland, flirting with German officers, aiding the underground, and worrying about gunfire's effect on their nerves. At least this rescues them from the black-and-white situation in which the rest of the cast finds itself...
...incidentals are the best of all. Faced with scores of temptations to slip into patches or melodrama, the script escapes nimbly every time. Bits like the execution of a priest and the shooting game of the drunken German commandant acquire a power above their importance to the story...