Twenty-five years after his cult TV series, Kir Royal, director Helmut Dietl has now come released a sort of ?sequel? for the big screen. Zettl focuses on the high-flying career of a ruthless media man in Berlin. As satire, however, the frigid figures in Zettl fail to warm up to viewers. ...
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"Some find smearing the Solidarity revolution and its heroes by means of the secret police archives heroic. Others think it is more like throwing a hand grenade into a cesspool:
some get killed, some injured, and everyone is left soiled and smelly.
This is how we will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the August
revolution: bruised, smeared and frustrated. Can't we learn to speak
sensibly about the things we have had the courage to achieve?"
By Adam Michnik
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