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...After the War/Before the Wall” hit the screens of the Harvard Film Archive last Friday with a double feature of seldom seen post-war films, including Peter Lorre??s The Lost Man and Film Without A Title. The series, which debuted at Lincoln Center in New York City last April, was organized by Germanic languages and literature department chair Eric Rentschler and two colleagues, Klaus Eder and Hans Kohl...
...films in the series are linked by their time period, not by a shared genre. Lorre??s The Lost Man, his only directorial endeavor, is based on the true story of a Nazi scientist-turned-serial-killer. The film’s anti-hero, Dr. Rothe, is stalked by shadows and plagued by his past in a film that aligns itself with the expressionist oeuvres of Fritz Lang...
...Lost Man, Lorre??s character is a serial murderer and a Nazi, but he does not kill on behalf of the Party, and his victims are not Jewish. The film engages a guilty history, but it is the guilt of a lone psychopath rather than the guilt of an entire nation. Lorre suggests that Dr. Rothe’s transformation from an upstanding doctor to a murderer is linked to the political climate of the time, but the politics in the film are driven by wartime espionage, not by anti-Semitism...
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