The Director

About the event

Hollywood to Nazi Germany, Garbo to Goebbels – The Director is Daniel Kehlmann’s imaginative take on filmmaker G W Pabst and the heady entanglement of art, politics, and power at the peak of the Nazi regime.

Exploring complicity and moral compromise, the rise and fall of German cinema, and the politics and propaganda of the silver screen, don’t miss International Booker Prize-shortlisted Kehlmann discussing his controversial, magnificent book, and his storied career with Chair Pasquale Iannone (Film Studies).

How to attend

This event is part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It is costed, and tickets are available through the Book Festival website.

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