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f'Das Boot' repr
IBy Doug Bell
German cinema has been a major force in
artistic filmmaking for the past decade. Art
houses in America (Nickelodeon being the
local example) have been flooded with films i
by Wim Winders, Werner Herzog and the <
late R.W. Fassbinder. Theater schedules <
would seem depleted without the recent i
German products. <
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say I feel the new breed of Germans have ]
shown a deeper commitment to artistic ]
[jS expression than any major national moviem
making movement. <
America seems too eager to appease its
monolithic adolescent market; Australia
|? too often yields to a somewhat naive
populist tendency; France, thanks to occasional
fresh surges from the New Wave
(Truffaut, Rohmer, Resnais, Godard), can
j|g still hold its head above a sea of mediocre
Itnvonty (example: raraon Mon aifaire");
Italy struggles along as best it can,
with occasional luck.
BUT GERMANY panders to no one! Its
filmmakers make movies with teutonic zeal
bordering on the obsessional. Clearly, they
are more interested in personal expression
than box office receipts.
When a director is able to convey a deeply
personal, wildly visionary dream, has he not
achieved a (dare I say) triumph of the will?
Don't alarmed The German directors
||| do not condone totalitarianism, nor do their
films induce fanaticism. They are essentially
individualists, drawing from a
heritage that includes a cultural tradition
rich in music, art and cinema on one hand,
|| and the overwhelming shame of Nazism on
IS the other.
But they are not cowed by spectral ghosts
from a guilty past. Werner Herzog,
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USC's Music Department will continue its
September Concerts series with a chamber
music concert at 8 p m. tomorrow in
Gambrell Hall Auditorium.
Works by Johannes Brahms, Robert
Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and others
will be performed by Music Department
faculty members.
Program highlights include Richard
Conant and Raymond Dudley performing
Brahms' "Four Serious Songs"; Laury
Christie, Evelyn McGarrity and Charles
Fugo, Schumann's "Bedeckt Mich mit
Blurnen": and Robert Jesselson and Fugo,
Mendelssohn's "Sonata in D Major, Op. 58."
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arguably
the most eminent of the new
German directors, ignores the implications
)f Nazism altogether. Most of the others,
.inable to escape its dreadful residue, try to
3eal with the recent Reich either from an
absurdist's viewpoint, as in ''The Tin
Drum," or more realistically, as in "Das
Boot,'' which is playing at Columbia Mall.
It is not every day that a high quality
German movie makes the cross over from |
art house to commercial cinema; for that |
reason alone I am fit to crow. Wolfgang |
Petersen's "Das Boot" (The Boat), while I
would not place it among the highest j
achievements of new German cinema, is a j
fine film that is representative of this potent
movement.
IT CONCERNS the voyage of a Nazi U- !
boat during the heated middle of World War
II. The major characters are the ship's >
captain, the chief engineer and a lieutenant
specially assigned to observe the naval
procedures of the submarine. 1
The captain, exquisitely played by Jergen \
Prochnow, is a moody, concise man, ?
suspicious of Nazi ideals. He never partakes f
in party protocol; refusing to acknowledge (
or return a "Seig Heil!" War is a job to him, t
one he does not relish. His is the dominant i
attitude of the film.
ine mm nas little dramatic tension in tne
traditional sense. The U-boat is not a t
microcosm of society, teeming with <
colliding characters, although there are 1
disagreements on board. The real conflict is
between the men and the submarine. <
The mood, particularly because of t
stunning photography, is claustrophobic.
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Jergen Prochnow turns in an exquisite perfoi
rhe camera rarely ventures outside the
vessel, locking the viewer inside the narrow
intique craft with its inadequate sanitary
acilities, rotting food and terrified crew.
Dne does not merely sympathize with them;
he viewer feels as though he is, pardon me,
n the same boat.
IF THE atmosphere is convincing, so is
he journey. One feels as though he has
covered the North Atlantic and the
Mediterranean by the time the film ends.
Only one dedicated to new German
:inema would take a leisurely three hours to
:ell such a down-beat war tale.
The film opens prior to the voyage in a
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entertainment briefs
THE MCKISSICK AT NOON SERIES will
open its third season Thursday with
"Fanfare and Fripperies," performed by
the USC Horn Ensemble.
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USC music students and guest players from
the community. Directed by Robert Pruzin,
the program will include works by Dick
Goodwin and USC staff member Fred
Teuber.
Other fall shows will be a concert by "The
Carolina Camerata," a woodwind quintet,
on Oct. 21, and a presentation by the USC
Department of Theatre and Speech Nov. 18.
The free performances, staged on the
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rmance as the U-boat captain in "Das Boot."
dance hall where a paroxysm of fear,
anxiety and sickness pervades which is
thematically revealing. The film ends at the
dock in a paroxysm of irony that seems
forced and spurious.
"'Das Boot" doesn't ask the audience to
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men in a tight spot. There is much about the
film I admire. The acting is magnificent,
each man's face becoming a demonstration
of obsession, fear, madness, sadness and a
spectrum of other emotions. 1 can't praise
the photography enough.
Although I recommend the film highly, I
feel the events are too sparse and too light of
meaning to call this a great film.
Concerts series
USC Horseshoe, begin at noon and last 30 to
40 minutes.
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AN EXHIBIT of watercoior paintings by
Georgetown, South Carolina artist Nancy
Blackwell Bourne will be on display at the
Richland County Public Library, 1400
Sumter Street, Sept. 7-30.
Bourne has painted seriously for
about five years and has studied with many
outstanding teachers. She has participated
in numerous shows, including the first
Annual Blue Crab Festival and the C & S
Statewide Art Competition. She won a merit
award in the 1981 South Carolina Watercoior
Society competition.
The exhibit is open to the public during
regular library hours: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00
p.m. Saturday, and 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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