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Film Evening: Nazi and Communist Film Propaganda

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: April 18, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Presentation of Richard Taylor’s book Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany coupled with a screening of propaganda pictures.

The Nazis and Soviet Bolsheviks used more than terror to force the obedience of the societies they controlled. Another key instrument of their power was propaganda. And in the first half of the 20th century film was the most powerful propaganda tool, a fact on which Lenin and Goebbels agreed. Taylor’s book summarises how in their countries the Bolsheviks and the Nazis subjugated film companies and later many filmmakers, as well as exploring the production of the most striking works of propaganda.

Translator Petruška Šustrová will present the book.

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