“History is not about the facts. It is about the context and who is telling the story.” —Prof. Milton Fine.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." –– George Orwell in his novel "1984."
"Whoever doubts the exclusive guilt of Germany for the Second World War destroys the foundation of post–war politics." –– Prof. Theodor Eschenberg, Rector, the University of Tübingen.
"If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"After the end of an inglorious era, there is always a certain tendency to eradicate and forget, to remove evidence and documents from this period from historical use. This is especially true for those interested in film history when attempting to present the history of German film during the Third Reich." –– from a PhD candidate's dissertation, 1954, Munich.
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Karl Ritter's influence on Imperial Japanese military war films, 1940–1945.
[ ABOVE: A 1940 Imperial Japan brochure on the film UNTERNEHMEN MICHAEL in our Collection. ]
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Film director Kenji Mizoguchi (Osaka Elegy, The 47th Ronin, both 1936) in the February 1940 Japanese film magazine Sutaa (Star) commented on Unternehmen Michael as follows: ‘Karl Ritter’s direction is skillful, but it is the soul of filmmaking that shines through more brilliantly than skill. The soul to make something complete is within him. A great filmmaker.’ Mizoguchi was, for his post–war films such as Sansho the Bailiff (1954) and his “women” films, called ‘one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers’ by the New York Times, as well as by other filmmakers, such as OrsonWelles.
The following text is drawn from pages 81–82 of the biography KARL RITTER - HIS LIFE AND 'ZEITFILMS' UNDER NATIONAL SOCIALISM (2nd ed. 2014) by William Gillespie, available from this website Store and well as via International Historic Films, Chicago, Illinois, USA. ©2014 by William A. Gillespie, All Rights Reserved.
