Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirkwas a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 April 1897
CountryGermany
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And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.
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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
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Now in theory, if there is no straight line in the universe, this has its effect on art. Art must consist of something bent, something curved.
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I knew Law, and I knew theater. I didn't, of course, know American law, and in America the theater did not exist, except for Broadway.
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I didn't think I could continue to do the melodrama as I had done in Germany. I couldn't know how it would go over with audiences here.
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.