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: > >> 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) > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu