Okay this may not be the perfect place, but I've been trying everywhere :

I'm looking for the name of a movie, or, more probably, a tv-movie, that had been shown on Arte maybe a decade ago.

It was the story of the social rise of some creepy cowardly opportunistic guy during the weimar republic, and the story ended with his avant-garde affiliation to the promising newborn nsdap party. It was like a decades-long chronicle. I only saw the ending, which was a bit crual (wasn't a period where the good guys were winning a lot).

If I remember well, the title of the film was just the name of that character, that I only remember to sound a bit "soft", like Schmudel, Mfulf, moschml, Mflll... whatever, something very much not like Zpatzkarzklakartrack.

I even contacted Arte's service, and they don't remember what it could have been. But it seemed to be a high quality production, so, I'm surprised it isn't more famous than that.

Anyone has any idea ?

Max ? But that's an American movie .

Was it this one? >_>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanussen_%281988_film%29

No. I think Hitler only gets mentionned in the film's last sentence (in a high society party, with some "have you heard about that guy's discourses, he's interesting", to which the film's main character only responds by revealing some tiny nazi symbol already pinned on his jacket, much to the amusement and the admiration of his friends). No, I think not, I don't remember anything supernatural in it. I think it was a very down-to-earth historical chronicle, and I think (not sure) that I would have remembered if Brandauer had been in it.

^ And me, about to suggest Mephisto :P

Sorry, no idea.

I like how only one German has posted. :D

Well, here's a thought - quite possibly the Germans are fast asleep at this hour ;D

Oh wait, here's another - maybe German films and the free TV channel Arte are not German exclusives.


Just being silly.

Wir sind alle Berlinern XD

Okay. this is absolutely totally that thing. The summary's last part (from the confrontation about the pogrom) completely matches my memories. Shit, I shiver and feel ill at ease just as the details come back - it's really a sad movie, and an fucking infuriating moment in History.

And I really, really didn't remember that Brandauer was in it ! Even having the main role in that part (although secondary in the whole movie). I was traumatised by the train scene, and how it was symbolic of the drift of society. It left me the same impression, in a few minutes, as Klemperer's studies. Anyway, if I had remembered him, I would have identified this movie so long ago. He's one of the very few german actors I'm familiar with...

Also, I'm now curious about the one-word title they gave in on the french version of Arte, because it had no relation with this. I don't even think it was "Lohse". But this is extremely secondary. Thanks a huge lot, I really have been looking for this for years !

I just clicked on the Wikipedia page and then on the french version of it and found that the title was "La Toile d'araignée". I wonder if arte changed the title or maybe the memory is wrong.

Anyway I usually like arte alot.

I think that "la toile d'araignée" would have stuck, as a title. But who knows. I had forgotten about Brandauer, and memory is a weird thing.

Also yes. I was telling myself, lately, that Arte is the one thing I really miss from Switzerland, although Arte's website is easier to use from the legally european Greece. In Switzerland, I was often refused the right to watch their online videos, because their rights are for the EU only.


(Okay, one of the two things I miss - I also miss some power-hungry games of my desktop computer, that I wouldn't be able to play on my laptop. Sigh.)