Ask a German anything.

[Edwardo Piet]

*wonders whether this is a "piss-take" or even distaste or hatred of my thread about myself*

(Doesn't particular care, really is just wondering, but hopes that GAC still likes oneself ).

Oneself is sensitive right now.

[Rev. Rye]

We make alot of other movies, but no one is interested in those other movies.

Ever heard of Bang Boom Bang?

I've never heard of Bang Boom Bang. From what I've been able to gather, It never got a stateside release.
Maybe this perception has more to do with US distributors than anything else.
Interesting thing; I've recently been getting interested in Iranian cinema, especially since the success of A Separation; and I recently found out that

Or the novels by Herman Hesse and Heinrich Böll?

Hesse was more pre-war than anything else; he did write a little after the war, but these stories are so obscure they hardly count, and, curiously, from what I remember, Boll's fiction (except for Katharina Blum) tends to focus more on the post-war, reeling from the effects of Hitler, things that are so common in post-war German literature.

Our relationship with the past is not only dominated by WW2, we enslaved the Polish people for 200 years and were pritty brutal in our treatment of the French and others.

It is the state of selfdenial when confronted with fashism, racism and antisemitism in Germany today which is worrying, not how we confront ourselves wtith our past.
Some deny to themselves that some problems exist simply because they believe that they can no longer exist.

Well said. As I said, it's only the paradox of the "don't mention the war" mindset and the apparent fact that the War seems to completely dominate the German arts that troubles me. It's a shame that American distributors aren't as interested in representing the diversity of German cinema as they do with France.

[Shell B]

When they Christen a German, do they do a swastika on their foreheads instead of a cross?

/obviouskiddingisobvious