FREE ON YOUTUBE Der Fremde - The Stranger (1946) (Rating 8,0) (OF) DVD8090

FREE ON YOUTUBE (DU FINDEST DEN GANZEN FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) "Because Welles was young and romantic, his genius seemed closer to us than the talents of the traditional American directors. We loved this film because it was so complete—psychological, social, poetic, dramatic, comic, grotesque. 'Kane' both demonstrates and mocks the will to power; it is a hymn to youth and a meditation on age, a study of the vanity of all human ambition and a poem about deterioration, and underneath it all a reflection on the solitude of exceptional beings, geniuses or monsters, monstrous geniuses." Das schrieb Francois-Truffaut über Orson Welles. Das stimmt. Vor allem aber ist The Stranger ein Edward G. Robinson Film. Und zwar sein persönlichster! The Stranger darf auch als sein privatester Film gelten. In Wikipedia erfährt man, dass seine Familie vor den antisemitischen Unruhen aus Rumänien in die USA floh. Robinson blieb immer aufrechter Antifaschist. In The Stranger spielt er den UNO Ermittler Wilson, der einen Nazi lakaien frei lässt, in der Hoffnung, er würde ihn zu den ganz grossen Fischen führen. Wilson will Franz Kindler fassen, den Organisator des Holocausts. Kindler wird natürlich von Orson Welles selbst verkörpert. Ein grauenhafter Typ. Kindler mag als flotter Lehrer-Typ durchgehen - doch dahinter verbirgt sich ein Eichmann. Ein Architekt des Todes. The Stranger war Welles dritte Regie Arbeit in Hollywood. Zuvor hatte man bereits seine Visionen verschnitten und nun versuchte Welles, seine Reputation wieder her zu stellen. In Welles Karriere kommt The Stranger einem echten Studio Hit noch am nächsten. Es gibt wundervoll expressionistische Bilder, also einen der ersten Holocaust Film Noir - und man darf davon ausgehen, dass die amerikanische Öffentlichkeit 1946 noch nicht viel wusste über den Holocaust. Die Verwüstungen des Krieges zeigen sich in der Psyche der Protagonisten, ja in der amerikanischen Psyche - das bleibende Thema das Film Noir. - FREE ON YOUTUBE "Because Welles was young and romantic, his genius seemed closer to us than the talents of the traditional American directors. We loved this film because it was so complete-psychological, social, poetic, dramatic, comic, grotesque. Kane' both demonstrates and mocks the will to power; it is a hymn to youth and a meditation on age, a study of the vanity of all human ambition and a poem about deterioration, and underneath it all a reflection on the solitude of exceptional beings, geniuses or monsters, monstrous geniuses." Francois-Truffaut wrote this about Orson Welles. That's right. But above all, The Stranger is an Edward G. Robinson film. And his most personal! The Stranger can also be considered his most private film. In Wikipedia you learn that his family fled from Romania to the USA because of the anti-Semitic riots. Robinson always remained an upright antifascist. In The Stranger he plays the UN investigator Wilson, who releases a Nazi lackey in the hope that he will lead him to the big fish. Wilson wants to catch Franz Kindler, the organizer of the Holocaust. Kindler, of course, is impersonated by Orson Welles himself. He's a terrible guy. Kindler may pass as a brisk teacher type - but behind him is a Eichmann. An architect of death. The Stranger was Welles' third directorial work in Hollywood. His visions had already been blurred before and now Welles was trying to restore his reputation. In Welles career, The Stranger is the closest thing to a real studio hit. There are wonderfully expressionistic images, one of the first Holocaust Film Noir - and one can assume that the American public in 1946 did not know much about the Holocaust. The devastation of the war is evident in the psyche of the protagonists, indeed in the American psyche - the enduring theme of Film Noir. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)