A 13-minute film class that'll ruin how you watch movies forever.
Direction
Färber's obsessive frame-by-frame analysis is uncomfortably intimate.
Editing
The cuts between Griffith and Färber's commentary create meta-tension.
Director
Helmut Färber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Färber was a foundational figure in West German film criticism; this 1983 lecture-film influenced an entire generation of European film scholars.
The original 1909 Griffith film was based on Frank Norris's 'The Pit' and was considered radical socialist propaganda in its era.
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