Showing posts with label Glynis Johns. Show all posts
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Frieda (1947)

Zu Beginn der Basil-Dearden-Filmsaison hattest du noch nie von diesem kraftvollen, vom Holocaust inspirierten Anti-Nazi-Film-noir-Klassiker über einen heimkehrenden Veteranen gehört.


Frieda (1947) is a Basil Dearden British returning veteran World War Two anti-German sentiment in post war society and unrepentant Nazi brother stiff upper lip tension and xenophobia bucolic and Arcadian bar room punch up social issue romance and integration tear jerker film noir of longing and hope, of the holocaust itself rare and yet displayed in full X rated horror, displaying 1940s fig in a tale of national forgiveness and starring Glynis Johns, David Farrer and Mai Zetterling, and how terribly, terribly wrong it is to treat people as less than human.