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INSIDE THE THIRD REICH, ABC, May 9, 8p.m.; May 10, 9p.m. E.D.T...
Inside the Third Reich, a five-hour TV movie based on the best-selling 1970 memoirs of Albert Speer, is one more honorable exploitation of Nazism's awful charm. At an early Nazi reception, Speer's wife (Blythe Danner) surveys the panoply and calls it "a dress rehearsal for disaster." It was no dress rehearsal; it was a superproduction of the real thing, and the main characters acted as if they were in their own movie. Hitler (Derek Jacobi) does malicious impersonations of Mussolini and Chamberlain; he sits raptly before a Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza; he watches himself...
Charles A. Reich's The Greening of America, with its portentous celebration of teen-age counterculture and its meditations on the existential significance of bell-bottom jeans, was a tour de force of softheadedness. Yet it was also a spectacular critical and commercial success when it appeared in 1970, largely because of where it appeared. But other instant bestsellers born in the stately columns of The New Yorker have survived as masterpieces of modern journalism, such as Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring, a catalyst for the environmental movement, and John Hersey's Hiroshima. While Schell...
Modern nations as well as primitive tribes may try to repeat their primordial events and look for escape into sacred time. It is a dangerous passage. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich, the tribe of fur-clad Übermenschen with Aryan fire in their eyes, lasted for twelve years. Hitler meant to inject his vulgar sacred time into profane time, but the sacred can never intrude for more than an instant. Any longer, and the results are monstrous...
...David Singer (Mario Fischel), is Jewish, and the film David is another small step in Germany's reluctant search for understanding of the Nazi period. Families like David's were forced into public humiliation, then into hiding, then-if they were lucky-out of the Reich. Director Peter Lilienthal adds little to the Holocaust "literature," content to play family ironies against social enormities in a genre that is by now as codified as the western. The frisson comes from hearing the characters speak not English on a Movie of the Week but German-to Germans...