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"It is a famous scene from film history, the 'no ticket'-he left the scene Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The scene is very humorous. This is mainly due to the music of John Williams. Actor Harrison Ford knocks a Nazi out of the Zeppelin, with which the title hero wants to flee Germany. The...

It takes a while to get in Love to Death (2020) a figure emerges from the darkness. There are only excited voices from a crowd, cries of protest. A woman's head slowly lights up, her black robe melting into the darkness. When she starts to sing, only very few people can understand the lyrics, because she...

More by luck than wisdom, Jonah Falke, as family holder, is the only one who can continue the Falke bloodline. He never delved into his family history until, shortly after the death of his grandmother, a thin book was found among her things, entitled Past perfect tense. In the seventeen-page life story, Grandpa Falke addresses his three...

About 150 people are gathered in the freezing cold around the grave of Marinus van van der Lubbe in Leipzig. Wednesday marked ninety years since the Leiden resident was beheaded by the Nazis in the German city. A year earlier, in February 1933, the communist set fire to the Reichstag building in Berlin. The newly appointed...

“Your murals are monumental,” Eugenie Boon (1995) heard during her training at the Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) in the Curaçao capital Willemstad. She was 18 years old, ambitious, searching and was guided at that time by the Dutch painter Hadassah Emmerich. In order to better understand the world and to investigate and interpret human motivations, Boon had...