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The Film Explainer Book

The Film Explainer was first released in Germany in 1990, hailed as a work of comic genius. In it, a boy tells of the life of his grandfather, Karl Hofmann, who worked in the Apollo theater in Limbach/Saxony as a film explainer and piano player. As the Nazis rise in power, Grandfather goes along until a bomb falls on the Apollo. Beneath the surface of this seemingly simple tale are complex undercurrents--the folly of Grandfather's life, the grandson's memoir, the glory of the cinema, the choices of the German war generation--all told in Hofmann's quick, comic dialogue that earned him critical praise for both his novels and radio plays.Read More

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  • Product Description

    An exploration of a boy's relationship with his grandfather in 1930s provincial Germany which won the 1995 "Independent" Foreign Fiction Award. Grandfather narrates the action for silent films, and new technology threatens to displace him. Hope of a return to the old ways arrives with the Nazis.

  • 0749396407
  • 9780749396404
  • Gert Hofmann
  • 11 March 1996
  • Minerva
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • New edition
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