Cultural Gutter: Gods in Wigs
Over on the Cultural Gutter, I’m writing about the loony sci-fi epic, Hard to Be a God, a co-production between France, West Germany, and the Soviet Union made as the Berlin Wall was coming down.
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In the Dust of the Stars
East German production house DEFA got into the scifi game with the solemn The Silent Star. In the Dust of the Stars trades that gravitas for disco style, interpretive dance, and nudity.
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The imagination apparent in every aspect of The Silent Star‘s design is a joy, with a story that is solid and economical enough in its construction to survive instances of ideological lip service.
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