[AGL] the loneliness of the long distance movie goer

[Michael Eisenstadt]

with the closing of Waterloo Video i have been
thrown back on the resources of the Austin 
Public Library.

i found this one at random: a Norwegian movie
about the pro-Nazi Norwegian novelist Knut 
Hamsun. Hitler admired Hamsun's The Growth of
the Soil (i actually read this once my father had
a Modern Library translation of it in the library).

Max von Sidow plays Hamsun. he actually met/
meets Hitler although he does no/did not speak German
(his wife did/does and she gave readings in German
translation of his meisterstuck in Germany during the 
war). after the war she did 3 years in prison and he was
psychiatriacally examined at length (he is made
to watch movies of the concentration camps),
brought to trial, and fined of his wealth.

you will know Von Sidow from the many Hollywood
B movies in which he played the Nazi in the cellar.

von Sidow is masterful in this role. his speech in
the courtroom with the tremor in his right hand
is/will be unforgettable.

it is being pointed out to me by my roommate that he 
was Bergman's favorite actor (as well as playing the
Nazi in the cellar in umteen forgettable flicks).