This film essay explores the strange case of G.W.Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who was considered a giant of early cinema before his reputation went behind a cloud. What possessed this liberal, cosmopolitan filmmaker to return to Austria in 1939 and direct movies for the Third Reich?
Released
United States of America
September 25, 1991
(New York Film Festival)
Austria
May 29, 1992
(TV premiere)
Germany
October 23, 2009
(DVD premiere)