Word: neckar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the Rubble. Speer, 70, now can do his walking in the yard of his home near Heidelberg, high above the Neckar River where he lives comfortably with his wife Margarete. He occasionally speaks to student groups about the experience of the Nazi years, but tries to avoid commenting on present-day politics. When asked whether he sees any application of the Nuremberg principles to the U.S. role in Viet Nam, he answers: "It is not for the judged to judge the judge." Even though Speer is the only ranking Nazi to emerge from the rubble of the Third Reich...
...Czechoslovak films, and it should be. Somehow director Miri Menzel manages to maintain a witty ironic tone throughout the picture, even though its subject is the German occupation during World War II. Menzel, who both wrote and directed the film, centers events around a quiet young lad (Vaclav Neckar) who is at a perceptive, uneasy stage in his adolescence. He works at a railway station--the "closely watched trains" were the German munitions trains which had special priority...