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...City of Light, two bearded compatriots excitedly greeting each other with kissed cheeks -- in short, the Paris of one's dreams, rendered with both satire and great affection. Parisian-born, Doisneau began his career as a photographer while in his 20s, lending his talents to the Resistance during the Nazi Occupation. He achieved prominence as a fashion photographer after the war and international recognition with his portraits of the "little drama in everyday life." Yet there was some stagecraft behind those supposedly candid moments: in a legal dispute last year, Doisneau acknowledged that he had paid two models to pose...
Against impossible odds, and goaded by the desire to avenge his dead or absent father, a nobody toils heroically to become a star. He learns both to be himself and to merge with his team. His opponents are either Nazi-oid stepfather figures or faceless goons (the Icelandic hockey players in D2 are outfitted like S&M Darth Vaders). If the movie is a sequel and stars one of Martin Sheen's sons (Charlie Sheen in the easy-to-take Major League II, Emilio Estevez in the noisome D2), the hero will go soft until he rediscovers the heart...
Once in Budapest, Wallenberg turned the Swedish legation into a whirlwind of activity. Using printed Swedish indentity cards, he gave thousands of Jews protected status and moved hundreds from the ghettos into safe houses. His efforts were soon brought to the attention of Adolf Eichmann the Nazi sent to Hungry to handle to extermination of the Jewish population. Eichmann was as determined to kill the Jews as Wallenberg was to save them...
...efforts seemed about to come to naught when the departing Eichmann ordered the Budapest ghetto sealed and every Jew inside killed. As the tanks and machine guns encircled the neighborhood, Wallenberg charged into Nazi headquarters and assured every officer there that he would personally see then hanged for war crimes when the Allies took the city...
Among intellectuals, there is an ongoing debate over whether individuals shape history. Those who argue affirmatively are often in the minority. Not so when it comes to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany...