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...that can give a partial reply, in documentary terms, seems automatically destined for success. The only candidate for honors among the revival flicks is a remarkable documentary called Swastika. Produced by 36-year-old Englishman Sanford Lieberson (Performance) and directed by a 23-year-old Australian newcomer named Philippe Mora, it began as a research job on the copious surviving archives of Nazi film after Lieberson bought the rights to Speer's Inside the Third Reich. But what altered the film makers' intentions was the discovery, by Film Historian Lutz Becker, of Hitler's own home movies...
...nothing in the nighttime. The banality of this view of Hitler at ease is the message, as always with home movies. Most of Swastika consists of previously unused material from professional Nazi films, mainly propaganda and newsreel, tightly edited together so as to present the illusion that Mora had sent a documentary team 40 years back into the Reich. The home movies make it seem as though Andy Warhol tagged along...
...university library; officials cannot afford to hire people to catalogue the volumes because the state legislature has frozen all the university's appropriations at last year's levels. In Mora, Minn., children go to school twelve months a year; the town had to put the school on a year-round schedule to save money after voters defeated a bond issue...
...noticed them as they came running arms linked," Mexican journalist Juan Miguel de Mora said, "in a way which reminded me of films that I have seen of Hitler's storm troopers.... These men didn't wear uniforms, but their paced run was very military.... I saw them hit with clubs and sticks the students running in all directions. Two or three were caught and savagely beaten...
...When this group of attackers retired," journalist Mora said, "some people who were watching from the roofs or their houses threw down sticks for the students to defend themselves. Some bricklayers at a nearby construction site gave the students pieces of wood with the same intention...