{"id":2649,"date":"2011-04-04T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2011-04-04T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T17:54:38","slug":"the-curious-case-of-veit-harlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Case of Veit Harlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/HarlanInShadowJudSuss.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1826\" title=\"HarlanInShadowJudSuss\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/HarlanInShadowJudSuss.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>Time is tight today, so I\u2019ll actually forego the usual  editorial blather and direct you to a review of Felix Moeller\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/h\/3755_HarlanInShadowJudSuss.htm\">Harlan:  In the Shadow of Jud Suss<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2632\">M<\/a>]  (2008), released last fall from Zeitgeist Films.<\/p>\n<p>Who was Veit Harlan? In short terms, a star director during  the Third Reich \u00a0&#8211; he directed the last  film produced under Goebbels\u2019 watch, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/j2l\/3130_Kolberg.htm\">Kolberg<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2638\">M<\/a>], in 1945 &#8211; and later a disgraced  filmmaker after he refused to accept any blame, nor make apologies for helming  the anti-Semitic film <strong>Jud Suss<\/strong> in  1940.<\/p>\n<p>Moeller\u2019s doc is more about how the specter of that film, if  not Harlan\u2019s career and stature as an artist, affected family members, and  whether the infamous film is as racist and dangerous as some historians claim.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to interviews with all of Harlan\u2019s surviving  children \u2013 including the late Thomas Harlan, Maria Korber, Jan Harlan, and  Christiane Kubrick \u2013 the extras include a lengthy interview with filmmaker  Alexander Kluge, and an additional interview with Harlan\u2019s granddaughter  Jessica Jacoby.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics have found Moeller\u2019s doc half-finished, or a  half-examination, with insufficient attention given towards the elephant in the  room, so I\u2019ve added a review of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/j2l\/3756_JudSuss1940.htm\">Jud Suss<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2629\">M<\/a>], which is available on DVD in  the U.S. with extra historical materials and an audio commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Coming next: ridiculous monster movies, and a review of <em>bubberfilm<\/em> <strong>The Chase<\/strong> (1966), which screened yesterday at the Tiff Bell  Lightbox as part of their salute to Arthur Penn.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">KQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The specter of writer \/ director Veit Harlan&#8217;s anti-Semitic film Jud Suss (1940) still lingers over the Harlan family, and I&#8217;ve uploaded a review the infamous film (still banned in Germany and parts of Europe) and Felix Moeller&#8217;s superb documentary from 2008, Harlan: In the Shadow of Jud Suss (Zeitgeist Films)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[385,378,380],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-GJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}