Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England, moving to the GDR with his family in the 1950s. As he grows into a prolific writer and poetic rebel, he struggles with the reality of ...

The literary basis was the classic fairy tale Cinderella. In the movie, Cinderella is a young woman who is treated badly by her wicked ... The film is so closely associated with the Christmas season ...

Next up was Charlie Chaplin’s 1941 black comedy, “The Great Dictator,” an anti-fascist spoof that, along with his capitalism-critical movie “Modern Times,” was used as evidence of the silent film star ...