Tag Archives: Maria Schrader

a ray of light in hard times (film: Rosenstrasse – Margarethe von Trotta, 2003)

‘A ray of light in hard times’ – this is how one of the main heroines characterizes the events described in ‘Rosenstrasse‘, the 2003 film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. The episode took place in February-March 1943 and was one … Continue reading

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Hollywood investigates Hollywood? (film: She Said – Maria Schrader, 2022)

I confess that I had high expectations from ‘She Said‘, the docu-drama based on the report written by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the two New York Times reporters who revealed in the book with the same name the story … Continue reading

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words are not enough (film: Stefan Zweig: Farewall to Europe, Maria Schrader, 2016)

I seldom give maximal rating to a movie. So far on, IMDB where I record my impressions about the films that I see, I have given 10 rating to only 34 films, and this list includes classical films and those … Continue reading

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cold war games (TV series: Deutschland 83 – season 1)

Once, half a life ago, I stood in front of the Brandenburg Tor on Eastern side of the wall. The year was 1980 and I was visiting East Berlin and the DDR, one my two only trips in ‘friendly socialist’ … Continue reading

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