Alternatives to Schindler's List

[John Boylan]

Steelhead, in the midst of a list of films "that have informed my own
view of the European Question during WWII and shortly after", says:

>Volker Schlondorff--Our Hitler (My favorite, Schlondorff could do
>Pynchon)
To which I reply : It is the great Hans-Jurgen Syberberg and not the
slickly mediocre Schlondorff who, in 1977, directed Our Hitler.

Further Steelhead:
>One big hole here is the Soviet's. Surely, the great Sergei Bondarchuk
>made films about the Nazi occupation. What are they?
Me : Sudba cheloveka (Destiny of a Man), 1959, his first and best. Also,
Oni srahalis zarodinu (They Fought for their Motherland), 1975, an ex-
cellent movie.


                                                --John Boylan