That Hitler was mad is well known. That he was mad about art, not so well.
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08/15/08
The Rape Of Europa (2007)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:14
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Joan Allen narrates this documentary that chronicles the plight of Europe's greatest artistic treasures during the Nazi reign. As the Third Reich attempted to destroy the continent's culture, art... [More]
Director: Bonni Cohen, Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham
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Reviews for The Rape Of Europa
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Top CriticThe Rape of Europa, an engrossing film based on Lynn Nicholas' 1995 book of the same name, offers a fascinating new perspective on an era that sometimes seems as if it has no more secrets.
05/29/08
Top CriticIt's long for a documentary, almost two hours, but it has a big story to tell.
03/06/08
Top CriticAs thorough as the movie is, it could easily devote another hour to cases like this.
02/01/08
Top CriticThere is a heart-rending feeling to this documentary, in part due to its sense of irretrievable loss.
01/25/08
Top CriticFilmmakers Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, and Nicole Newnham do a superb job of telling this neglected story in vivid detail.
01/11/08
Top CriticA startling documentary.
01/04/08
Top CriticThis one has focus trouble, canvassing too many countries, too many issues, and the filmmaking is on the ordinary side.
01/03/08
Top CriticNot helping matters are Joan Allen's blanched tones as narrator, or the general flatness of the talking heads.
09/28/07
Top CriticSurprisingly vast and involving.
09/28/07
Top CriticEuropa starts to lose its tight focus and becomes a cinematic cataloguing of events across seven countries. Given the moral imperative at the heart of the movie, however, perhaps more is more.
09/27/07
Top CriticAll in all, an exciting and terrifying new perspective on an era you probably thought you understood.
09/20/07
Top CriticMuch of the documentary shows in gripping detail the efforts to save Europe's treasures from Hitler's clutches and the ravages of war.
09/17/07
Top CriticThe directors (Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen and Nicole Newnham) have their hearts in the right place. But their film is uninspired in style, and Joan Allen's narration is dry.
09/14/07
Top CriticThis meticulously rich documentary chronicles the cultural scavenging of the Nazis and the heroic efforts of art patrons and ordinary citizens to hide the treasures.
09/14/07
Top CriticA fascinating account of art's fate during the rise of the Third Reich and the Second World War.
09/13/07
Top CriticThe movie doesn't dramatize this crime -- it catalogs it. With deadening monotony.
09/13/07
Top CriticThe doc is an excellent survey of the techniques employed by the Third Reich to not just demoralize but de-historicize the countries they invaded.
09/11/07
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