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Whistle Stopper - The Nasty Girl
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bertram, Michael Gahr
Directed By: Michael Verhoeven
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302253764
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302253764
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: 1998-06-23
Running Time: 92
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1991-03
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Summary: I'm stunned there is no US DVD...great film
Comment: Can it be that the only DVD edition of this is for non-US countries? I think this film is brilliant. From start to finish, it showed the impact that one person can have with determination. It is a film in my library I watch at least once a year. What a crime to not have a DVD edition!
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Summary: A comedy about town protecting a nasty secret
Comment: Sonja (Lena Stolze) - an apparently ordinary girl - decides to research her German town's Nazi history during Hitler's reign for a school project starting from the town's archive. In the process, she discovers that her town - including prominent citizens - was heavily involved in the holocaust by the Third Reich. Almost everyone in town not only turns against her, but some even try to silence her. But, her work leads to an honorary doctorate from... neighboring Austria. Now, she not only cannot be silenced, but even ignored anymore.
This comedy is a masterpiece study of a quite typical behavior of group to protect its interest based on these particular events. But, they could have happened at any other time in any other country ever experiencing atrocities, so practically almost everywhere. That universal dimension makes the movie really great.
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Summary: a brilliant comedy about the sad truth
Comment: A beautiful film, funny, whitty, but yet - sad. The heroine says that you have to know where you are cdoming from, so that you will also know where you are going.
The sad truth about Germany is that it either does not want to know the sad truth about itself, and those who do know, and were sub-human nazis during WW 2, don't want us to know.
I hope they keep naking movies like this in Germany
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Summary: Hooray For All Nasty Girls
Comment: This film by Michael Verhoeven is about a Bavarian schoolgirls's (Sonya) quest to find out the truth behind her small village's history and involvement behind the Third Reich. The film gives a chilling depiction of how partriarchal institutions and powerful individuals in control will use any means to neutralize any seroius threats brought against them. Surprisingly enough, Nasty Girl is one of few films that depict a woman as being single-mindedly obsessed by the pursuit of the facts. This kind of discourse has always been reserved for males. Several times Sonya is almost diverted from her quest by the temptations society dangles in front of women to keep us in our places. Sonya even receives this kind of pressure from her own husband.Verhoeven does an excellent job of depicting the panoptical regime Sonya is objectified to in the film. There are a number of scenes in the film in which they are filmed on the back of a moving, open-top truck dressed up to resemble a family sitting room. There are no walls which hint at Sonya's lack of protection for herself and her family. Everyone is able to see into her actions without her being able to see into theirs. It is only until she is able to get hold of the facts that are intentionally being withheld from her that she is able to regain control. This allows for the walls to reappear around Sonya and her family. The Nasty Girl is a wonderfully constructed (with heavy use of many cinematic visual techniques) film that follows the journey of a highly ambitious woman towards the truth behind her homeland's history. Ironically, there is nothing "nasty" about this film...well maybe the kiss Sonya and her schoolteacher share in the film, but that's another review...
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Summary: My view on "The Nasty Girl"
Comment: "The Nasty Girl," directed by Michael Verhoven, is a German film about a woman, Sonya Rosenberger, trying to find the truth behind her Bavarian town's hidden past. Everything about Sonya's town appears pleasant and quaint as she is growing up until she begins digging into its history during the Third Reich. While Sonya's search encounters obstacle after obstacle, the town's pristine appearance fades. Secrets of clergymen ratting out Jews to the Nazis, concentration camps, and other scandals upset the townspeople when their true identities are revealed by Sonya.
For the ordinary viewer, "The Nasty Girl" may seem more of an avant-garde film. However, there is much meaning behind the way Sonya is portrayed through her own actions and the actions of the town. Sonya feels the gaze of everyone in the town, as her every move is documented and judgments are cast against her. In his book, Ways of Seeing, John Berger's idea of the surveyed, being Sonya, and the surveyor, being the townspeople, is beautifully displayed in scenes of the film where her world and pursuit for the truth is known by all the townspeople. The film may also seem different because Sonya's character does not fit the Hollywood stereotype of a "perfect" woman. She is not typified as a tall blonde who acts in a "girlie" manner or is purely a sexual object. She has her own set of values and beliefs that she holds strongly to, even though others might try to scare or hurt her. Sonya is a rare kind of woman in film because looks like any other woman and endures many hardships like any other woman. Overall, this is a highly recommendable film for those who enjoy thinking beyond what is on the screen.
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Filmmaker Michael Verhoeven (not to be confused with Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven) made one of the best films of the '80s with this bold, 1989 German production about an adolescent girl, Sonja (Lena Stolze of Verhoeven's The White Rose), who researches the history of her hometown's involvement in the Holocaust. The "nasty" of the title doesn't refer to provocative behavior on the heroine's part but rather Sonja's sudden reputation as a busybody, stirring up dirt about her neighbors' sundry crimes against humanity and being rebuffed or punished at every turn. Verhoeven makes a number of inspired, artistic leaps in portraying Sonja's story (she grows up and is a married woman before her quest is complete) as an epic myth for post-war Germany. The director draws on thrilling performance ideas from Bertolt Brecht and pursues heavy visual stylization to bring an exciting immediacy to this tale of dangerous secrets. Topping it all off is Stolze's sharp, likable, smart acting. --Tom Keogh
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