Archival Spaces 395 White Russians in Hollywood Uploaded 20 March 2026 A still photograph from Joseph von Sternberg’s The Last Command (1928) perfectly captures the mixture of reality and fantasy, of historical truth and aesthetic expression that is so much a part of Hollywood cinema and its White Russian colony: Standing in a World WarContinue reading “395: Far From the Revolution”
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388: Riefenstahl
Archival Spaces 388: Riefenstahl (2024) – The Movie Uploaded 12 December 2025 The penultimate scene in Andres Veiel’s new documentary, Riefenstahl (2024), which opened recently in Los Angeles, shows footage that producer Sandra Maischberger possibly shot in ca. 2002, when Leni Riefenstahl was over 100 years old. In close-up, the Nazi diva frets fussily inContinue reading “388: Riefenstahl”
387: Nazi Film History II
Archival Spaces 387: Otto Krieg’s German Film in the Mirror of the Ufa Uploaded 28 November 2025 By 1943, the Ufa was not only the largest German film company, as it had been in the Weimar Republic, but the only German film company, nationalized and under direct control of Joseph Goebbels’ Nazi Propaganda Ministry. InContinue reading “387: Nazi Film History II”
384: Friedrich P. Kahlenberg
Archival Spaces 384: Remembering Bundesarchiv President Friedrich P. Kahlenberg Uploaded 17 October 2025 Prof. Dr. Friedrich P. Kahlenberg would have celebrated his 90th birthday in twelve days. Born on 29 October 1935 in Mainz, where the Main and Rhine Rivers run together, Kahlenberg was one of my most important mentors, the person responsible more thanContinue reading “384: Friedrich P. Kahlenberg”
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