The Film Explainer

by Gert Hofmann

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Set in provincial Germany in the 1930s, this is an exploration of a young boy's childhood relationship with his grandfather, the local silent movie narrator. Grandfather sees in the Nazis hope of a return to the old days.

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Gert Hofmann, Dr. phil. habil. (2011, University of Rostock) is Head of the Department of German at the National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC). He has published extensively on literary and cultural theory, including Schweigende Tropen. Studien zu einer sthetik der Ohnmacht (Francke, 2003). Snjezana Zoric, Dr. phil. (2000, University of show more Zagreb), is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zadar. She has published widely on Asian religions and anthropological theory, including Yongsan-Jae. Buddhist Ritual as a Mirror Image of the Korean Culture (Institute of Ethnology and Folkloristics, Zagreb, 2004). show less

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Duquesnoy, Theodor (Translator)
Hofmann, Michael (Translator)

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Canonical title*
De filmverteller
Original title
Der Kinoerzähler
Original publication date
1990 (Duits) (Duits); 1992 (Nederlands) (Nederlands)
People/Characters*
Karl Hofmann; Meneer Theilhaber
Important places*
Limbach, Saksen, Duitsland
Original language*
Duits
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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
833.914Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman fiction1900-1900-19901945-1990
LCC
PT2668 .O376 .K5513Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesGerman literatureIndividual authors or works1961-2000
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