Review: Albert Speer
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In the mirror, you can always see
Past
Past
I should have known. I could have known.
But I didn’t know. These sentences were repeated at the Nuremberg trials, 20
years in Spandau prison and in his biographies Albert
Speer., court architect and architect of Hitler and Nazi Germany
The Minister of Armaments.
But I didn’t know. These sentences were repeated at the Nuremberg trials, 20
years in Spandau prison and in his biographies Albert
Speer., court architect and architect of Hitler and Nazi Germany
The Minister of Armaments.
How would you have acted if
you would be a young ambitious architect for whom the almighty leader of the nation
would offer you the opportunity to make your wildest dreams come true and leave traces of your genius
To the millennial kingdom? Is a man selling his soul, his cowardice, or
because of its calculations? Will he become blind and deaf because the truth is
too overwhelming or because in the midst of the ecstasy of the surging mass, the individual’s
It’s so easy to give up morality?
you would be a young ambitious architect for whom the almighty leader of the nation
would offer you the opportunity to make your wildest dreams come true and leave traces of your genius
To the millennial kingdom? Is a man selling his soul, his cowardice, or
because of its calculations? Will he become blind and deaf because the truth is
too overwhelming or because in the midst of the ecstasy of the surging mass, the individual’s
It’s so easy to give up morality?
How a person lives
with their guilt – do they deny it completely or partially? How to choose
happens – in small steps and by chance or consciously? Is power so intoxicating
that its possessor inevitably renounces his humanity?
with their guilt – do they deny it completely or partially? How to choose
happens – in small steps and by chance or consciously? Is power so intoxicating
that its possessor inevitably renounces his humanity?
Do you know what your blindness is
Now just give the authorization?
Now just give the authorization?
And it’s not about worlds
but about whether you stop on the street to help a fallen person
Grandma, do you silently accept your colleague’s workplace bullying – your humanity
of the number of employees.
but about whether you stop on the street to help a fallen person
Grandma, do you silently accept your colleague’s workplace bullying – your humanity
of the number of employees.
British David
Edgar’s play Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect fills
Directed by Kari Heiskanen at the Helsinki City Theatre
big stage. I’ve never seen the space of this huge stage like this
magnificently utilized. It’s like Hitler’s mausoleum, and when
Nazi symbols, huge flags, swastikas and a wide-winged eagle roll in
The cold hand squeezes my heart and the hairs on my body rise in terror.
Edgar’s play Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect fills
Directed by Kari Heiskanen at the Helsinki City Theatre
big stage. I’ve never seen the space of this huge stage like this
magnificently utilized. It’s like Hitler’s mausoleum, and when
Nazi symbols, huge flags, swastikas and a wide-winged eagle roll in
The cold hand squeezes my heart and the hairs on my body rise in terror.
Behind the wall of a stone house slips
Films about concentration camps and megalomaniacs
parades.
Films about concentration camps and megalomaniacs
parades.
The control overlaps the mass and the
individual, exchanges and cuts are like a movie, and a person’s lie and crime
is embodied in the figure of Asko Sarkola’s Speer.
His opponent is Casalis, a priest in Spandau prison, whose
Pertti Sveholm plays the role with wise calmness. Not only good
and evil, but there is a person where good and evil compete.
individual, exchanges and cuts are like a movie, and a person’s lie and crime
is embodied in the figure of Asko Sarkola’s Speer.
His opponent is Casalis, a priest in Spandau prison, whose
Pertti Sveholm plays the role with wise calmness. Not only good
and evil, but there is a person where good and evil compete.
Not even neo-Nazis can find
praise of National Socialism or cheering for it. To the final bows
Kari Heiskanen, Hitler, arrives in a change of civilian clothes and
Even the latest Nazi officer has had his Nazi symbols stripped of his
None of the applause would go to Nazism.
praise of National Socialism or cheering for it. To the final bows
Kari Heiskanen, Hitler, arrives in a change of civilian clothes and
Even the latest Nazi officer has had his Nazi symbols stripped of his
None of the applause would go to Nazism.
If a person visits, for example, once
in five years in the theatre, now is the time for it. Not to forget the past
and would pierce your eyes for the future.
in five years in the theatre, now is the time for it. Not to forget the past
and would pierce your eyes for the future.
APU 21.2.2003 Raila
Kinnunen
Kinnunen