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    Wartime Out of Joint

    Jan 03, 2019 3 minutes
    Christian Petzold as told to Becca Voelcker

    INCE MY TEENS, I’VE BEEN A KEEN READER AND CINEPHILE. I shared this with Harun Farocki, my teacher, friend, and collaborator. is dedicated to Harun. He gave me Anna Seghers’s 1944 novel, upon which it’s based. Growing up in West Germany, I was discouraged from reading Seghers because she was a communist. follows refugees fleeing Nazism, stranded in Marseille. This parallels today’s European refugee crises and

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