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| | Central Europe Review - Film: Aleksandr Sokurov's Moloch |
 | | After the film's reception in Cannes and at the London Film Festival, Sokurov was lumped in with Peter Greenaway as an auteur given to wilful mystification on screen, the courting of controversy (at one point, Hitler claims sincere ignorance of Auschwitz) and convoluted utterances in interviews and at press conferences. |
 | | The film, however, continues to demand a response (it played to full houses at the London Film Festival, for example) and, to this end, CER presents initial reactions to this difficult film in the form of a dialogue between Andrew J Horton, Benjamin Halligan and Donato Totaro. |
 | | This emerges in the climax of Moloch (if we can talk of a Sokurov film having a climax), when Eva Braun declares the depth of her feeling for the Führer but at the same time says "You have always feared banality. |
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