Review - Before The Fall
BEFORE THE FALL [NR]
review by Sue Katz
Before The Fall is Dennis Gansel’s unflinching look at life in 1942 Germany for boys who have been judged sufficiently Aryan and accomplished to attend high schools whose mission is to prepare the next generation of leadership. The handsome adolescent Friedrich Weimer (Max Riemelt) finds relief in the local boxing gym from his back-breaking labor job. A Nazi recruiter catches his fight and offers him a sports scholarship to a “Napola” - a National Political School where the next generation of Aryan leaders are educated. Friedrich’s father is horrified at the thought of his son having anything to do with “those people,” so Friedrich forges the parental permission slip. Once enrolled, he find himself in a tough-love, homoerotic institution that makes impossible demands on him.
His relationship with the delicate Albrecht Stein (played poignantly by Tom Schilling), the son of the present regional Nazi leader, […]
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