Der jüngste Tag (1951)
65KDer jüngste Tag: Directed by Rudolph Maté. With Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt. As a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically work to complete the rocket which will take them to their new home.
“I saw this film in its North American premiere in a packed theater at the Toronto Intu0026#39;l Film Festival this past week and was pleased to be part of a standing ovation at the end for the director and star, who were both on hand.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;The Lives of Others,u0026quot; set in East Germany not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, tells the moving story of a police investigator forced to confront himself and the work he does. In a society poisoned by secrecy, fear and the abuse of power, a number of the movieu0026#39;s characters — artists, actors, writers — must look deep inside and decide what they are made of; none more so than the investigator.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is a movie that took me to a place and time that felt very authentic, for a tale that was very satisfying.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eUlrich Muhe, who plays the investigator, is mesmerizing, and the young director is to be applauded for this, his first full-length film. Some have compared u0026quot;The Lives of Othersu0026quot; to Coppolau0026#39;s u0026quot;The Conversationu0026quot; but the two have completely different story arcs and are only superficially similar.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBoth my companion and I felt this was our favorite of the six films we had a chance to see at the festival.”
