Wholesale Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang, Nazism Eradicated

Danielle Bleitrach, sociologist, university specialist in globalization and development, wanted to interview two anti-Nazis. They are Brecht and Lang, whose meeting takes place in Berlin – The Threepenny Opera, M the Cursed – then Exile, where they meet Hanns Eisler, and they make a film about the Assassination of Heydrich: Hangmen Also Die. Heydrich is the executioner of the Jews, the organizer of the final solution. But above all, how has the anti-fascist vaccine lost its effectiveness today? This book also bears the mark of conversations held with Richard Gerhke, architect, about Weimar Germany, the relationship between architecture and cinema. Table of Contents • For a Sociology of Cinema • Determinism in Art? • Synopsis of the film: Hangmen Also Die • 1. Hitler, the Lie is Truth • Nazism, a Clamor Rising from the Depths of History • 2. The UFA and the German Masquerade Ball • 3. Nazism, a Class Relationship at its Peak • 4. Nazism, Alienation and Psychosis • 5. Prague, Long-term History • 6. The Dead in the Film, their Representation • 7. M the Cursed, the Meeting between Brecht and Lang • 8. The Ambiguities of Lang • 9. Lang Attempted Brecht without Brecht • 10. The Hangmen, an Original Cinematic Project • 11. The Letter and the Film • 12. Brecht and Lang, an Epic Collaboration • 13. Exile and Distancing • Postface Memory • Bibliography • Index