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This video features a richly illustrated archive conversation in which cabaret performer and actor Mark Nadler delves into the mysteries of the Weimer era and its heroes and heroines, including Kurt Weil, Lotte Lenya, Frederich Hollaender, Bertolt Brecht, and Marlene Dietrich, all of whom escaped Hitler's Germany for the United States. Nadler discusses the origins of the Weimar Republic and how it encouraged artistic freedom and the end of that freedom...
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Based on the cinematography of Soviet (Georgian) Filmmaker Mikheil Chiaureli, this film by Academy-award winning Georgian filmmaker Nino Kirtadze follows the funeral of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Chiaureli was one of Stalin's favorite filmmakers for his propaganda films and emerged as one of the most important Soviet directors and cinematographers in the 1940s. The footage shot by Chiaureli was intended by the Soviet authorities to be the definitive...
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This video is a documentary portrait of Soviet poet Joseph Brodsky, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the world's most extraordinary poets and essayists. Filmed on location in the United States, Italy, and Russia, the video follows Brodsky's life through his Kafkaesque trial, his exile, and his arrival in the United States. Recordings of Brodsky reading some of his poems highlight some of the prominent themes of his work: exile and...
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This video features a production of Mark Nadler's Off-Broadway cabaret performance I'm a Stranger Here Myself. Nadler performs in front of a projected montage of imagery that includes historical photos from the 1920s and 30s as well as gently evocative film clips from the Iowa-born performer's early years in New York. The production evokes the works of Weimar cabaret starts Kurt Weil, Lotte Lenya, Frederich Hollaender, Bertolt Brecht, and Marlene...
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In this video, actors Ron Bottitta and Gillian Brashear replay their roles as the title characters in Jovanka Bach's play that debuted Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre. Set in 1901, the play tells the story of Anton Chekhov, sick with tuberculosis and hiding his recent marriage from his possessive and jealous sister, Maria. Maria also has a secret that she is keeping from her brother. These secrets and familial relationships and rivalries...