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...hillside overlooking East Germany, the men who have molded the spy, a Pole named Leiser, silently shake his hand. They have come thus far together. Now he must go on alone. "There were no fine words," writes Author Le Carré, his eye fixed on the solitary figure going down the hill into the obliterating night shadows. "It was as if they had all taken leave of Leiser long...
This is Le Carré's dark point, struck like a funeral bell on nearly every page of this book. Leiser is doomed. He descends the hill to foreordained failure in his mission, sensing that those whom he wants to trust will, if it comes to that, abandon him. He has all the significance of a pawn, played and sacrificed in a game that itself has no meaning...
Mein Kampf. A calm, fair, objective and appalling documentary of Hitler and his gruesome works, compiled from newsreels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films and secret police footage by Swedish Film Maker Erwin Leiser...
Mein Kampf. A calm, fair, objective and appalling documentary of Hitler and his gruesome works, compiled from news reels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films and secret-police footage by Swedish Film Maker Erwin Leiser...
...this film, to endure it, may well seem to men of conscience a social duty and a moral obligation. Surveying his work, Editor Leiser was reminded of Rabbi Akiba, who in the 2nd century was burned alive by the Roman tyranny. According to legend, the holy man was bound to his funeral pyre and then said quietly: "Even this is good. Even this has meaning...