Life Goes On          

Director: Mark Cairns
Running Time: 86 minutes   
Germany 2002

Post Screening Discussion with Director


In August 1944, the Third Reich is near to collapse and the first Allied soldiers are on German soil. Meanwhile, just outside Berlin the cameras start rolling on one the biggest propaganda films ever planned by the Nazis: Life Goes On.

This film which intended to show how the German people cope and retain their spirit through the horror and destruction of their everyday life. The premiere was planned for the end of June - two months after the war was lost.

Life Goes On uses every filmic trick to tell the extraordinary, tragic yet often blackly comic story of a film that started out as the biggest propaganda epic ever attempted by the Germans in the Second World War and ended up in flames.

Screening:

27 October 7.30 p.m. Rewley House Cinema