{"id":47589,"date":"2016-06-12T21:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47589"},"modified":"2017-03-07T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:35:37","slug":"race-in-post-war-german-cinema-in-drama-toxi-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47589","title":{"rendered":"Race in Post-War German Cinema in Drama \u2018Toxi\u2019 (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race in Post-War German Cinema in Drama \u2018Toxi\u2019 (Video)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

IndiWire<\/a>
\nApril 2016<\/p>\n

Sergio<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For anyone interested in foreign films, one of the most interesting periods of German filmmaking was the post war period between 1946 to the mid 1960\u2019s.<\/p>\n

In effect, only two types of films were being made: pure escapist film such as musicals and comedies that were designed to make the audience completely forget the ugly events of the recent past. And then there were films like “The Lost One<\/a>,” “Germany Year Zero<\/a>,” and “Murderers Among Us<\/a>” which explicitly dealt with the aftermath of the horrors of World War II<\/a> and Germany\u2019s<\/a> guilt and repercussions.<\/p>\n

But of all the films, one of the most fascinating, and worthy of rediscovery, is the 1952 film “Toxi<\/a>,” co-written and directed by Robert Stemmie<\/a>, who was a major and very successful director of the period. It was one of the very few German films made then, and even now, which seriously tried to deal with race. No doubt a very touchy and controversial subject considering Germany\u2019s Nazi<\/a> \u201cracial purity\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n

For years the film was very difficult to see. I first saw it a few years ago during a film series of post-war German films. However, the film was eventually remastered and released on DVD and is available from the DEFA Film Library<\/a> DVD series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.<\/p>\n

The film centers around an abandoned German \u201coccupation baby,\u201d which was the term for children of U.S. soldiers (stationed in Germany after the war) and German women, who were abandoned by their parents. It was estimated that there were some 3000-5000 of these children, many of whom were biracial…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For anyone interested in foreign films, one of the most interesting periods of German filmmaking was the post war period between 1946 to the mid 1960\u2019s.<\/p>\n

In effect, only two types of films were being made: pure escapist film such as musicals and comedies that were designed to make the audience completely forget the ugly events of the recent past. And then there were films like “The Lost One,” “Germany Year Zero,” and “Murderers Among Us” which explicitly dealt with the aftermath of the horrors of World War II and Germany\u2019s guilt and repercussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,28,1196,8],"tags":[3228,2948,24065,11483,24064],"class_list":["post-47589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-europe","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-afro-germans","tag-germany","tag-indiewire","tag-robert-stemmie","tag-sergio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52182,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47589\/revisions\/52182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}