Georg

Synopsis

Best Remembered Today For His Brilliant Study Of Early German Cinema, From Caligari To Hitler: A Psychological Study Of The German Film, And For His Involvement With The Frankfurt School (he Mentored Theodor Adorno), Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) Was The Editor For Cultural Affairs At Germany's Leading Liberal Newspaper, The Frankfurter Zeitung, During The Weimar Republic Until Its Disastrous End. His Novel Georg Is A Panorama Of Those Years, As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Rookie Reporter Working For The Fictional Morgenbote (morning Herald). In A Defeated Nation Seething With Extremism Right And Left, Young Georg Is Looking For Something To Believe In. For Him, The Past Has Become Unusable; For Nearly Everyone He Meets, Paradise Seems Just Around The Corner. But Which Paradise? Kracauer's Grimly Funny Novel Takes On A Confused And Dangerous Time Which May Remind Us Of Our Own.