Introduction: Is the past a foreign country? -- The burden of the past and the lightness of the present: dealing with historic trauma through film -- Our Hitler: new representations of Hitler in European films -- A clear dividing line?: Cinematic representations of German, Italian and Irish terrorism -- From socialist realism to postmodernism: Polish martial law of 1981 in Polish and foreign films -- Good-bye Lenin! or not: cinematic representations of the end of Communism -- Twists of fate: secret agents, communist collaborators and secret files in German, Polish and Czech films
Summary
This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This includes the Second World War, Armenian Genocide, anti-Semitic attacks in Poland, European terrorism of the 1970s, and the end of communism
