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To: kumar who wrote (102406)	6/22/2003 3:36:33 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

I am sure you're right about the number of languages spoken in New York, maybe also New Jersey and San Francisco. At the moment I am off on another tangent, trying to hunt down a copy of Das Mädchen Johanna: >>Graham Greene noted a similar convergence between past and present in Gustav Ucicky's Das Mädchen Johanna (Joan of Arc, 1934). It is a pity that this film does not appear in the Goethe Institute's series, for it seems to be the only version of the story in which Joan is not a heroine: The real hero is Charles [VII] with his Nazi mentality, his belief in the nobility of treachery for the sake of the nation. The purge of 30 June and the liquidation of Tremouille, the burning Reichstag and the pyre in Rouen market-place - these political parallels are heavily underlined. The direction is terribly sincere, conveying a kind of blond and shaven admiration for lonely dictators who have been forced to eliminate their allies.[6] Joan of Arc failed to provide a suitable model for German womanhood not only because she was French but because of her insistence on acting in accordance with her own independent judgment (or listening to the voice of God, which is really the same thing). Women in the films of the Third Reich rarely exhibit independent judgment, and the consequences are dire when they do. Zarah Leander, the leading female star of the period, is chastened in Douglas Sirk's La Habañera (1937) for insisting on leaving her homeland in search of love and adventure in fever-ridden Puerto Rico, and again in Rolf Hansen's Die grosse Liebe (The Great Love, 1942), where she fails at first to understand that her pilot-lover's military responsibilities are more important than her personal happiness. "There is a veritable subgenre of Nazi moral tales," Eric Rentschler notes, "focusing on the taming of shrews and the reeducation of willful wives and lovers."[7]<< stanford.edu