Musik From the Weimar and Beyond and I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 04:27PM
“Musik From the Weimar and Beyond” and “I’m A Stranger Here Myself” are two films in a double DVD or Streaming File collection that tell the story of Germany’s Weimar Republic, explaining how Adolf Hitler rose to power, how German Art and Performing Arts talent escaped German Antisemitism and LGBTQ persecution, and got to Broadway and Hollywood before America entered WWII (30 minutes). The second DVD presents Nadler's complete off-Broadway Show (88 minutes).
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FILM 1 MUSIK FROM THE WEIMAR AND BEYOND...
Producer, Writer, Performing Artist, Mark Nadler describes the Weimar Era as “14 years of unprecedented artistic and sexual freedom, a sort of anything goes Eden before Hitler and the Nazis took over”. Using songs by German and French songwriters who composed during the years of the Weimar Republic, Nadler examines the lives of these composers as well as those of ordinary German citizens caught up in one of the most intriguing and emotionally charged periods of the Twentieth Century.
Here is a trailer of the 30 minute film with Mark Nadler discussing the origins of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler's NAZI Party.
Musik From The Weimar and Beyond_Trailer from sarasotafringefilms on Vimeo.
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FILM 2: I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF...
Screen the performance film trailer "I'm A Stranger Here Myself" here:
MARK NADLER...I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, THE MUSICAL_TRAILER_1080_EN.MP4 from sarasotafringefilms on Vimeo.
Both films are tempered by an undercurrent of isolation that jibes well with the subject. Discussion of the outsider status of many prominent artists of pre-Nazi Germany—many of them gay, Jewish or both—is juxtaposed with details from Nadler’s Jewish family and his own history as an entertainer. The show itself places Nadler in front of a projected montage of imagery that includes historical photos from the 1920s and 30s as well as gently evocative film clips from the Iowa-born performer's early years in New York. "I don't know who I belong to," he sings, in a recurring motif. "I believe I belong to myself, all alone." Reflections on pre WWII Germany and the roots of hatred and anti-semitism today come to life.
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