Cancel Culture in opposition to the movie “Red Star over the field” | EUROtoday

Cancel Culture, new episode. At the weekend on the “Attention Berlin” competition, a movie by Laura Laabs is to run: “Red stars over the field”. The movie, shot in 2023, performs within the East German city of Bad Kleinen, the place the discover of a moor corpse triggers a tough dream recreation concerning the disappearance and recurrence of pasts, historical past and the current. At the Film Festival Saarbrücken, “Red Star over the field” received the award of movie criticism for one of the best function movie in January, and in May he’s to be launched.

The “Rammstein” singer Till Lindemann can be seen in two quick scenes, as a dodgy village owl and Erlkönig of the Mecklenburg province. That is why “Attention Berlin” now introduced, “Red stars..” be proven “with the appropriate moderation and subsequent Q&A with an expert: inside”. Because: “We feel sincerely with all those affected who have become victims of abuse of power and sexual assault.”

Affected by a brief look within the movie? “Anonymous critics”, it’s stated that the demonstration on the Internet would have denounced. The director herself apologizes with an announcement with the operators and customers of the Instagram account “No show for perpetrators” and the web site “No Rammstein” in Berlin: “You not only address justified concerns, but sometimes from our heart.”

What does that imply, partly or solely, for Laura Laabs’ award -winning movie? How far ought to retroactive self -censorship go? Laabs’ movie was made, thoughts you earlier than the allegations in opposition to Lindemann and a number of other of his band members grew to become recognized. The Berlin public prosecutor’s workplace has stopped investigating the musician after a short while.

Should all of the traces he left within the picture reminiscence, ought to all of the movies that present his face to be despatched to the reducing room? The critic Rüdiger Suchsland referred to the controversy about “red stars over the field” in a web based remark as a “conspiracy of the idiots”. That could also be exaggerated, however Suchsland is correct when he complains that the movie is now being handled “like a reserved film from the Nazi era”, ie an anti -Semitic work à la “Jud Süß”.

What follows? Only a sorner -up public helps in opposition to cancens. If no person loses their nerves within the administration of the competition, “Red Star over the field” runs not solely on Sunday, but additionally on three extra days as a part of “Attention Berlin”. Then you will note what just a few cinema minutes with Till Lindemann are actually price.