This one has focus trouble, canvassing too many countries, too many issues, and the filmmaking is on the ordinary side.
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01/03/08
The Rape Of Europa (2007)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:31
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.2/10
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
Top CriticThe film is somewhat scattered in construction, but it's an eye-opener.
12/07/07
The Rape of Europa delivers an unexpected knockout punch...
10/05/07
Hitler's methodical plan to plunder and destroy Europe's great works of art gets lush treatment in this comprehensive documentary.
10/04/07
Not helping matters are Joan Allen's blanched tones as narrator, or the general flatness of the talking heads.
09/28/07
Surprisingly 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 CriticRape of Europa is a history lesson dressed as a measured thriller.
09/27/07
You don't have to be an art lover to shed a few tears over the excellent human spirit involved in protecting such art treasures from violent, despotic greed. And, for their proper restitution.
09/23/07
All 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
Scrupulously researched, jaw-droppingly vast in scope and incredibly detailed.
09/17/07
The 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
This 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 CriticPBS, here's your ideal, intelligently made documentary for your fund-raising campaigns.
09/13/07
A fascinating account of art's fate during the rise of the Third Reich and the Second World War.
09/13/07
The movie doesn't dramatize this crime -- it catalogs it. With deadening monotony.
09/13/07
Top CriticAs the directors cogently and captivatingly illustrate, the Americans' acts of preservation and the Nazis' destructiveness and inquisitiveness both, ultimately, confirm art's status as an intrinsic, defining facet of national identity.
09/12/07
The 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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