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2023169 minPGdocumentary

Melting Ink

2023169 minPGdocumentary

Writers in Nazi Germany, including Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, and Erich Kästner, are examined through their complex and contradictory biographies.

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Writers in Nazi Germany, including Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, and Erich Kästner, are examined through their complex and contradictory biographies.

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Dominik Graf

Dominik Grafdirector

Anatol Regnierwriter

Constantin Liebwriter

Dominik Graf

Dominik Grafwriter

Anatol Regniercast

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Anatol Regnier's book Jeder schreibt für sich allein, published in 2020, serves as the foundation for a film that examines writers in Nazi Germany. Directed by Dominik Graf, the 169-minute documentary features the lives of authors such as Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, and Erich Kästner. Collaborators Constantin Lieband and Felix von Boehm contribute to this polyphonic essay, which presents the complex and often contradictory biographies of these literary figures.

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