Heinrich Hoffmann
Eva Braun was the mistress of Adolf Hitler from 1932 until their joint suicide in April 1945, in a bunker in the heart of Berlin. From 1937 to 1944, she shot amateur films at Hitler's Berghof in the Bavarian Alps, the Nazis' center of decision, where the Führer loved to receive his entourage. Color images that allow to enter the intimacy of Hitler and behind the scenes of the Third Reich. These historical images have been combined in a documentary that takes a unique look at the private life and crimes of the German dictator: that of the woman who shared his life.
Der Struwwelpeter is a popular German children's book. It comprises of ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. Writer/director Fritz Genschow adapted Hoffmann's book to the big screen. He made a career doing such films, he had done Hansel and Gretel and would go on to adapt Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and other family films. Der Struwwelpeter, however, is weirder and darker than the Grimms' tales. They are heavy morality lessons in which children are burned to death, starved to death, or have their thumbs cut off. In Hoffmann's world the punishment usually far outweighs the crime. Genschow provided a happy ending: through the wonders of reverse action children are brought back from their fiery deaths, their thumbs are reattached, and their misdeeds undone through the power of St. Nicholas and some sort of Christmas miracle. (via forcesofgeek.com)
