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The director : a novel

Kehlmann, Daniel 1975- (author.). Benjamin, Ross (translator.).

Summary: "G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him. When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels--the minister of propaganda in Berlin--sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels's thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement."--

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  • ISBN: 9781668087794
  • ISBN: 1668087790
  • ISBN: 9781668087800
  • Physical Description: print
    333 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Summit Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Summit Books, 2025.

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General Note:
Translation of: Lichtspiel.

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Subject:
Pabst, G. W. (Georg Wilhelm) 1885-1967 Fiction
Motion picture producers and directors Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 Fiction
Propaganda, German Fiction
Austria History 1938-1945 Fiction
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

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  • 20 of 36 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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