Videos of the day -- Christmas in the sinister world
The film The Odessa File is set in Germany 18 years after the end of World War II. One of the things that most stuck in my mind from it was this opening-credit sequence, with the apparently cheerful and innocent song taking on a different feeling in a world where evil still lurks, waiting for its time to come round again:
Here, with no such subtlety, is a Christmas carol for a time when evils from the relatively recent past are once again threatening to rise and reassert themselves (found via Politics Plus):
Here, with no such subtlety, is a Christmas carol for a time when evils from the relatively recent past are once again threatening to rise and reassert themselves (found via Politics Plus):
posted by Infidel753 at 5:54 AM
2 Comments:
I always thought that the opening of The Odessa File was one of the best for any film.
It was the most memorable thing in it, really.
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