Word: madchen
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...hard to imagine Adolf Hitler as a sex symbol. Yet during the '30s, he set many a Madchen's heart aflutter. Unfortunately for them, the Fuhrer was already smitten by a saucy teenager named Angelika Raubal, daughter of his half-sister. Hansen's fictional tour de force sticks to the historical record, but what may or may not have been said or done in private is of necessity impure fiction--dramatizations of Hitler as a sexually disabled masochist are graphic and over the top. Still, this is a painless way to learn a little history and enjoy such priceless dialogue...
When we first see our hero, Charles Brady (Brian Krause), he is carving the letter "T" on his arm of for Tanya Robertson (Madchen Amick)--a rather impressive (through not original ) make-up trick . We follow him downstairs, where his mother (Alice Krige) tries to catch members of the cat vigil that is steadily growing outside her kitchen window. Always the dutiful son, Charles tries to cheer her up with a little dancing and a little incest...
...gentry amassed against her. Librarians blocked her research; the limit of confidentiality on documents was suspiciously extended from 30 years to 50. When her phone wasn't jangling with anonymous insults ("Jewish whore!"), neo-Nazi louts were tossing bombs into her bedroom. Official Passau saw her as das schreckliche Madchen, a troublemaker in a skirt. But Anja was determined not to be nice. It takes a nasty girl to go after the Nazi boys...
...which de los Angeles seems recently to have developed over the realm of German lieder. Her exuberant performance of Schubert's Mein! made me forget for a moment that the songs from Die Schone Mullerin and hardly suited to a woman's voice and manner. Der Tod und das Madchen, on the other hand, conveyed such a deep sense of both the terror and the serenity of death, that it was with a bit of a shock that I recalled de los Angeles' remark to her accompanist Gerald Moore in his book Am I Too Loud? When he arrived backstage...
...Loneliness (Arthur Davis] is a sensitive and conscientious movie about life in a girls' school, with muted undertones of Lesbianism. In psychological understanding, it is superior to the famous picture with a similar theme, Madchen in Uniform (1931); and in the use of movie means to complex ends, Directress Jacqueline Audry (Gigi) almost equals, in some passages, the achievement of the great German horror story...