Путешествия и отдых

was too big for the movies в or, at least, for the commercial cinema. Lang and Germanyвs premier studio, Ufa (Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft), conceived it as their entrГe into the American film market. Shooting went on for 17 months, and Lang spent some five million Reichsmarks (out of a budget of 800,000). For two years, it was the talk of German cinema, but the premiere в which ran three hours, with an intermission в received mixed reviews, and the American distributor, Paramount, decided a shorter film was in order, so playwright Channing Pollock was hired to cut it. The same fate befell the German version в but not before a copy of the original had escaped to South America. is a patriarchy that lives high up in the New Tower of Babel; there are no wives or mothers visible, only