How about The Tin Drum (actually starts a little early) or The Marriage of

Maria Braun?



> From: John Dougill <[log in to unmask]>

> Reply-To: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>

> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:07:16 -0800

> To: [log in to unmask]

> Subject: Re: looking for a film depicting 30s-40s-50s

>

> on 01.12.21 9:32 AM, Donald Larsson at [log in to unmask] wrote:

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>> Gloria Monti requests:

>>

>>

>>> I am putting together a syllabus for International Cinema

>>> (1930-1960).  On the first day of school I would like to show an

>>> international film (made after the 1950s) that chronicles these three

>>> decades.  Any suggestions?  Thank you.

>>

>> Any particular country/region?  A few come to mind:

>>

>> China:          TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou)

>> China:          FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (Chen Kaige)

>> China (but "international" in production):      THE LAST EMPEROR

>> Japan:          INSECT WOMAN (Shohei Imamura)

>> Hungary:        SUNSHINE (Istvan Szabo)

>> Cuba:           LUCIA (Humberto Solas)

>> Russia:         THE INNER CIRCLE (Andrei Konchalovsky)

>>

>> Also, not quite as "international," but of interest:

>> THE GODFATHER (Parts 1 and 2)

> And you could add England - Remains of the Day

> to Don Larsson's useful list

>

> (frame story set in 1950s, main story in the 1930s, and depicting the end of

> an era and transition to American/modern values)

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