Even though the spy film genre is practically dead, the issue is still relevant: as curator Oliver Baumgarten points out, WikiLeaks and Google Street view are simply modern forms of spying.
The program begins on June 1 with the Romanian farce S-a furat o bomba (A Bomb was Stolen, photo), a film without dialogue from 1961, but don’t miss the more well known Fritz Lang film, The 1,000 eyes of Dr. Mabuse which today looks almost like a documentary on surveillance and information gathering.
The Celluloid Curtain – Europe’s Cold War in Film, Through June 22 | www.dhm.de/kino
June 1, 2011 9:00 AM
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