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Brutality in Stone
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Wikipedia article
'Brutality in Stone' is a 1961 German documentary film directed by Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni. Produced at a time when German cinema preferred to forget the nation's Nazi past, the black and white film recalls the speeches and rallies of Adolf Hitler in a largely motionless setting.
Background
Visually, the film focuses on the architecture of the ruined Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. The film draws connection between the design of these structures and the ideology of National Socialism. Repetitive motifs, such as pillars and sharp corners, have particular visual prominence in the film. Art historian Hans-Ernst Mittig refers to the combative angles and lockstep orderliness of the structures as "architectural militarism" (German: 'architektonischer Militarismus'),Mittig, Hans-Ernst (1998): NS-Stil als Machtmittel, in: Schneider, Romana / Wang, Wilfried (Hg.), Moderne Architektur in Deutschland 1900 bis 2000. Macht und Monument, Ostfildern-Ruit, S. 101-116. which reverberates in the film's audio of cheering crowds at Hitler's rallies.
'Brutality in Stone' premiered at what is now known as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1961 as an inaugural film of a "new generation" of German cinema.
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