The New Confessions (2011)
“Her arguments were cogent. Eight of her colleagues in the Artists’ Association had been killed in the last year. The association itself was outlawed. She doubted if she would ever be able to work in a German film again. The country, she said, was ruined, she had no desire to live in it, and so on.
I encouraged her to go and said I would join her as soon as I finished work on the new sound version of The Confessions. Indeed by then, early 1933, half the German film industry seemed to be living a...broad. I went with her to Lehrter Station to see her off. She had hardly any luggage. We kissed, we declared our love for each other and she left.
I walked gloomily out of the station. The unpleasantly bright flags—red, white and black—flew everywhere. Men in uniform hawked newspapers in loud confident voices. I hailed a taxi and thought about going to the Metropol for a symbolic drink but decided against it. I knew it would only make me more depressed and I had enough trouble on my hands as it was.MoreLess
I encouraged her to go and said I would join her as soon as I finished work on the new sound version of The Confessions. Indeed by then, early 1933, half the German film industry seemed to be living a...broad. I went with her to Lehrter Station to see her off. She had hardly any luggage. We kissed, we declared our love for each other and she left.
I walked gloomily out of the station. The unpleasantly bright flags—red, white and black—flew everywhere. Men in uniform hawked newspapers in loud confident voices. I hailed a taxi and thought about going to the Metropol for a symbolic drink but decided against it. I knew it would only make me more depressed and I had enough trouble on my hands as it was.MoreLess
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