In:
Cinémas, Consortium Erudit, Vol. 15, No. 1 ( 2005-12-06), p. 29-42
Abstract:
The author analyses the context in which Billy Wilder, sent to Berlin in 1945 with the US Army, became the creator of the “comedy of ruins,” a new genre that mixes the portrayal of the victorious with that of the vanquished. Starring Marlene Dietrich as a former Nazi, A Foreign Affair (1948) is Wilder’s filmic answer to Germany’s “year zero.” Working with both documentary images and pre-existing genres, the film paradoxically becomes a unique memorial testament.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1705-6500
,
1181-6945
Language:
French
Publisher:
Consortium Erudit
Publication Date:
2005
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2116029-6
