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...brother from infanticide and escapes to the city, and Petite Lumière by Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative...
...doing that. But those of us who are sincerely concerned with the plight of Iranians cannot satisfy ourselves through further abdication. It is crystal clear that something has to be done.Even people halfway around the world can accomplish something important for Iran. In an interview with a German newspaper, one of Iran’s leading reformers, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, said, “The conservatives always cave in to a lot of foreign criticism, and when there is no foreign criticism, they do what they want. I predict that in the future, if there is no international pressure, there will...
...Confederacy from rabble-rousing supporters of Abraham Lincoln. Though much has changed in the last 144 years, a large part of St. Louis’s charter can still be traced to the political situation at the outbreak of the Civil War, when its large population of anti-slavery German immigrants—the mid-19th century equivalent of today’s “dangerous radicals”—made St. Louis a significant threat to the newly seceded Confederacy.For those of you who haven’t been reading the news, the Civil War ended...
...Street Singer, nor the latter from the desperation of Demirjian’s Jenny. The rest of the songs are fantastic as well, ranging from short, odd fragments, to grand ballads of sex, tragedy, and comedy. I have never seen Weill’s signature unison singing, quintessentially German sound, and schizophrenic jumps between tonal and atonal music pulled off so well.Needless to say, the stubborn modernity (not to mention raunchiness) of this production is bound to keep some viewers from liking the opera. Regardless of whether you end up enjoying yourself or not, “The Threepenny Opera?...
...There are many aspects of this, some further in the past and some more recent, and without specification, the poll does not reveal anything very significant,” Ryan, the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, wrote...