Movies - Sept. 4, 2007
"Primo Levi's Journey" comes to Downer
For much of the world, Primo Levi's voice is the only one we've heard from Jewish Italy. A new film uses his long journey to explore modern Europe.
Tags: Primo Levi, Holocaust, Nazi, Germany, Ferrario, Turin, Piedmont, The Truce, Downer

Arts & Entertainment - April 24, 2007
DeVita's "Silenced" explores censorship, human rights
Wisconsin actor and playwright Jim DeVita has written a novel inspired by a resistance movement in Nazi Germany. DeVita says a group of university students in Munich who agitated against the Nazis are the inspiration for his novel “The Silenced,” published by HarperCollins in June.
Tags: DeVita, APT, spring green, first stage, the silenced, Nazi

Arts & Entertainment - April 26, 2005
Off-The-Wall gets "Standing O" for "Third Reich"
"Scenes Of Love And Death In The Third Reich" is the premiere of an original play by Milwaukee's Dale Gutzman. It's both a biography and a history of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a physician famous for inventing the descriptive "transvestite."
Tags: Off-The-Wall, Hitler, Nazi

Movies - March 18, 2005
Ganz shines in "The Downfall"
Everybody seems to be talking about "The Downfall" these days and especially about Bruno Ganz's portrayal as Adolph Hitler. Whether or not you think the world needs another film about Hitler and the Nazis, however, is your decision and we'll accept any cogent argument on that point.
Tags: Downfall, Hitler, Nazi, Germany, Reich, Ganz, Traudl Junge, Hirschbiegel

Movies - April 5, 2004
40 years on, "The Battle of Algiers" remains a powerful film
Italian director and screenwriter Gillo Pontocorvo's "The Battle of Algiers" is a landmark film, one of those works one often reads a lot about but rarely has the chance to see on the big screen.
Tags: Algiers, Pontecorvo, Algeria, France, Nazi, Islam, terrorism