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"Stalag"

("Pornography & Holocaust, Israel 2008; Director: Ari Libsker)

"Pornography and the Holocaust" - what a title. As subtle as some of the Exploitationklassiker of Italian trash cinema, say, Joe D'Amato aka Aristide Massaccesis "Porno Holocaust" ("Island of the Dead", 1981) and Cesare Canevaris offside malignant taste aberration "L'ultima orgia del III Reich" ("Gestapo's Last Orgy", 1977). The original name was Ari Libsker with Israeli Film Fund incurred his documentary subject under simply "Stalag".

the "Stalag" were in their early 60s in Israel popular Sexromane at the beginning almost all variations on the same topic told: unit A U.S. soldier or a British during World War II German prisoner of war and is in a "Stalag" interned, a "base camp" or "team master and penal camps". There he is surprised to find that the female guards (!) SS-nationals. Of these it is then raped and tortured. After a long ordeal, he is able to carry out his guards to overwhelm and sexual revenge, " raped by his tormentors and eventually kills. The books were marketed in Israel as translations of American novels pulp, derived mainly from Israeli authors, however, the cleverly imitated the style of the U.S. penny books. The colorful, hand-painted cover of the "Stalag" reminiscent of the U.S. Men's Adventure Magazines the 50s.

The German title is apt rental at the same time not. Aptly, he Libsker short documentary about the boom of the sensational "Stalag" novels, at least potentially, to the views of the European Nazi sexploitation films of the 70s expanded as described by the film historian Marcus Stiglegger in one of his dissertation as "Sadiconazista. The "Stalag", which were of 1961, the time of the Eichmann trial, up to about 1964 extremely popular in Israel acted as the Italian-European Sadiconazista of sadomasochistic fear lust fantasies, which were established in Nazi prison camps or concentration camps. One common factor is the pseudo-historical reference and the soft pornographic implementation.

is of little help to the lurid and yet very general title, however, as he blurs it is this association that the Italian trash films of the era from a former fascist country came and were thus in a fundamentally different framework and reception were consumed. The shock such as for an Israeli boy of 60 years, unexpectedly to find his father, one of the "Stalag" Sexromane is to take difficult, especially since been transferred to this very time of the Eichmann trial on television, the first time the full extent the suffering of the survivors of the Shoah in the public discourse of the young democracy was advancing. One of Libsker interviewees, a collector of strange fetish booklet tells just that story. His face, we see not, he does not want to be recognized. That this for him but a lasting experience was, is beyond question. For another interviewee, a former army members, they are simply fantasies, as he acts out like with his German girlfriend, where he is, consensually understood too sexual "revenge" for the suffering of European Jews. Yet another says, shrugging, that this early in the 60's just the only one available (soft) was pornography, which they could read as a teenager - a fact that in popular in Germany, "Eskimo Limon" - or "Lemon Popsicle "series (" ice lolly ";. 1978ff) is discussed at the edge, if one of the protagonists in the bathtub secretly reads "Stalag" booklet.

The director therefore has a controversial, interesting subject for his documentary unearthed. But his approach is not entirely convinced. Succeeded to the documentary that it Libsker verkneift to provide simplistic answers and psychologizing - projection, secondary traumatization etc. - that would scratch under such a film is inevitably on the surface. Despite numerous interviews with collectors of these books, former writers and historians, is the strange phenomenon the "Stalag" hardly palpable. Also, it makes itself Libsker too easy when he is not even similar variations in the U.S. or Europe mentioned. In addition, the excursions to the Israeli pre-"Stalag" are Holocaust literature, such as the author's "Ka-Tzetnik" or "K. Zetnik "(a pseudonym of the Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Feiner De-Nur and Yehiel) failed quite unstructured. After almost an hour of the documentary film then ends abruptly, with the impression that this could have been even more telling. Nevertheless, "Pornography and the Holocaust" an overly long passages of fascinating and interesting journey to a very obscure chapter Israeli popular culture, which, however should not be construed as representative. "Stalag" an extremely time-limited phenomenon and only a small minority were likely to have fantasized actually in the role of a GIs, one of the S / M fantasy reinterpreted Nazi terror is subjected.

is This text first appeared on www.filmgazette.de

pornography and Holocaust
OT: Stalags
Israel 2008 - 63 min.
Director: Ari Libsker - writer: Ari Libsker - Production: Barak Heymann - Camera: Uri Levi, Dror Living - section: Morris Ben-Mayor - Rental: Moviemento - Certificate: over 16 years - Cast: Liani Eyal, Ami Maoz, Dan Newman, Ronit Yedaya, Oded Yedaya, Eli Eshed, Nitsa Ben-Ari, Jonathan Ben-Nachum , Uri Aloni, Eli Keidar, Ezra Narkis - German Cinema Release: 30/12/2010