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The director : a novel / Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Ross Benjamin.
"G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him. When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels--the minister of propaganda in Berlin--sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels's thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement."-- Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668087794 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1668087790 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 333 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Summit Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Summit Books, 2025.
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: Lichtspiel. |
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| Subject: | Pabst, G. W. (Georg Wilhelm), 1885-1967 > Fiction. Motion picture producers and directors > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction. Propaganda, German > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | KEHLM D (Text) | 33126025779483 | New Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | KEHLM D (Text) | 33126025779475 | New Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/29/2025 |
| Independence Branch | KEHLM D (Text) | 33126025779467 | New Adult Fiction | Available | - |