Ernst Von Salomon Quotes

Certain Directors And Actors Were Constantly Preoccupied By One Problem, And Apparently, One Only. This Was Connected With The So-called German Greeting, Which Was The Method Of Hailing A Friend By Raising The Right Arm Straight Out With The Hand Extended At, Or Slightly Above, The Level Of The Shoulder. This Greeting Had Very Definite Political Implications; It Was Employed Daily By Millions; And The Directors And Actors Saw No Reason Why It Should Not Be One On The Films In A Simple And Life-like Fashion. They Failed. Even When Shown In The Rushes The Effect On The Select And Professional Audience Was Simply To Produce Uncontrollable Hilarity. The Cinema Can Do A Great Deal. It Can Entrance, T Can Tell Fairy Tales, It Can Be Realistic Or Surrealistic -- But It Cannot Portray A Gesture That Is False Without Underlining The Most Brutal Way Its Basic Falseness. The German Cinema Could Not Reproduce The German Greeting; It Was The Greeting That Was To Blame, Not The Cinema.

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