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''Never Look Away'' is a 2018 German film about an East German artist, starting before World War II and spanning three decades in both East and West Germany
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''Never Look Away'' (Werk ohne Autor--"work without author") is a 2018 film from Germany directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
It spans over thirty years of Germanfilm history. The story begins in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, specifically 1937 Dresden, with Kurt, a child of about six. Kurt is living with his Aunt Elizabeth because his father has lost his job over reluctance to join the Nazi Party. Kurt is a precocious child who is showing stunning talent as an artist. Elizabeth, a free-spirited young woman, takes him to an art exhibition to encourage him.
Unfortunately, Aunt Elizabeth is a schizophrenic, and soon after the trip to the art gallery she suffers a full-on breakdown and is sent to a hospital. 1937 Germany is a very bad place to be institutionalized, and the "hospital" is really a forced sterilization clinic. But there are even worse fates than sterilization. The administrator of the clinic, evil eugenicist SS doctor Carl Seeband (Creator/SebastianKoch), sends Elizabeth to an SS murder facility where she is gassed to death.
Kurt survives the bombing of Dresden in 1945 and goes to art school at an institute in what is now EastGerman artist, starting before World War II and spanning three decades Germany. He falls madly in both East and West Germany
love with a gorgeous fashion student, also named Elizabeth, although memory of his aunt leads him to call her "Ellie". Eventually, Ellie arranges for her boyfriend to meet her rich, well-connected father--Professor Carl Seeband.
It spans over thirty years of German
Unfortunately, Aunt Elizabeth is a schizophrenic, and soon after the trip to the art gallery she suffers a full-on breakdown and is sent to a hospital. 1937 Germany is a very bad place to be institutionalized, and the "hospital" is really a forced sterilization clinic. But there are even worse fates than sterilization. The administrator of the clinic, evil eugenicist SS doctor Carl Seeband (Creator/SebastianKoch), sends Elizabeth to an SS murder facility where she is gassed to death.
Kurt survives the bombing of Dresden in 1945 and goes to art school at an institute in what is now East
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Van Verten, a plane radio operator shot down in the Crimea, surrendered to the Americans--who were never anywhere near the Crimea.
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* {{Flashback}}: A flashback to little Ellie watching her father try on an SS uniform and practice his Hitler salute during the war, as adult Ellie realizes, or rather admits to herself, what Seeband was really up to during the war.
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** A flashback to little Ellie watching her father try on an SS uniform and practice his Hitler salute during the war, as adult Ellie realizes, or rather admits to herself, what Seeband was really up to during thewar.war.
** A long flashback towards the end as Prof. Van Verten tells a story of being badly wounded in the Crimea during the war, and how he was saved by the locals.
** A flashback to little Ellie watching her father try on an SS uniform and practice his Hitler salute during the war, as adult Ellie realizes, or rather admits to herself, what Seeband was really up to during the
** A long flashback towards the end as Prof. Van Verten tells a story of being badly wounded in the Crimea during the war, and how he was saved by the locals.
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* GilliganCut: A portrait artist advises Kurt to avoid the academy of art at Düsseldorf, as they are all modern art and very exclusive. Cut to Kurt at the Düsseldorf academy.
* NeverBareheaded: Prof. Van Verten never takes his hat off; Preusser says that once a student seduced him just to get his hat off but he kept the hat on in bed. Near the end of the film, after telling Kurt of how he was wounded in the war, Van Verten doffs his hat in farewell and reveals a ghastly burn scar.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse, this appears to be the attitude of the West German art academy. Among the bizarre art Kurt sees there is a woman firing arrows into a wall, and two nude men, one painting himself all white and another painting himself all black.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse, this appears to be the attitude of the West German Düsseldorf art academy. Among the bizarre art Kurt sees there is a woman firing arrows into a wall, and two nude men, one painting himself all white and another painting himself all black.
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* ShoutOut: Kurt and Ellie watch ''Film/{{Psycho|1960}}'', the kind of movie they couldn't watch in East Germany, after they defect to the West.
* StorefrontTelevisionDisplay: Kurt and Ellie goggle as they watch a West German lottery drawing on the televisions in a storefront window. It's an example of the availability of Western consumer goods, but Kurt later draws a connection between lottery numbers and how random elements gain meaning in art.
* StorefrontTelevisionDisplay: Kurt and Ellie goggle as they watch a West German lottery drawing on the televisions in a storefront window. It's an example of the availability of Western consumer goods, but Kurt later draws a connection between lottery numbers and how random elements gain meaning in art.
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* HeyWait: Ellie and Kurt are getting on a tram, and they are defecting to the West that very night. As they walk to the tram an East German guard says "Halt!" They freeze in fear--but the guard is stopping another man.
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* IronicEcho: Prof. Grimma the East German art teacher decries the Western fondness for individuality in art, describing it as "I! I! I!" Years later Kurt has decided to defect to the West in search of "truth". When his shocked friend Max asks "Who decides what is true?", Kurt smiles and says "I! I! I!"
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* {{Flashback}}: A flashback to little Ellie watching her father try on an SS uniform and practice his Hitler salute during the war, as adult Ellie realizes, or rather admits to herself, what Seeband was really up to during the war.
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* DramaticIrony: Kurt's mother Waltraud strong-arms her teacher husband into joining the Nazi Party. Johann is anti-Nazi and does so very grudingly, because Waltraud says after the war it will be his "capital". The audience of course knows different. After the war Johann is barred from teaching.
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** Kurt is hesitant about renting a room in the Seeband mansion, but Ellie assures him that her mother will never suspect a thing. Kurt does not tell her that her mother caught him after he jumped, naked, from Ellie's room.
** Kurt's mother Waltraud strong-arms her teacher husband into joining the Nazi Party. Johann is anti-Nazi and does so very grudingly, because Waltraud says after the war it will be his "capital". The audience of course knows different. After the war Johann is barred from
** Kurt is hesitant about renting a room in the Seeband mansion, but Ellie assures him that her mother will never suspect a thing. Kurt does not tell her that her mother caught him after he jumped, naked, from Ellie's room.
* InsistentTerminology: Professor Seeband insists that he be called ''Professor'' Seeband, not "Herr Seeband." At one poing this gets him punched by a Russian officer.
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* SelfImposedChallenge: Kurt and the other young men in the workshop are painting Communist propaganda signs. While the other men use stencils, Kurt paints the block lettering freehand. When an irritated coworker asks why he's painting that way, Kurt the phenomenal artist says "Because I can."
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* SelfImposedChallenge: InUniverse. Kurt and the other young men in the workshop are painting Communist propaganda signs. While the other men use stencils, Kurt paints the block lettering freehand. When an irritated coworker asks why he's painting that way, Kurt the phenomenal artist says "Because I can."
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* CallBack: Kurt greets his father when Johann, working as a janitor, is cleaning the stairs Kurt's walking up. Towards the end, when Kurt is the janitor and Seeland is on the stairs, Seeland ignores him.
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* ScreamingBirth: This saves Seeband. He is in a Russian internment camp when the commandant's wife is suffering terribly from childbirth and screaming--the baby is breech. Seeband uses his skills to save both mother and child, and the commandant becomes his personal protector, getting him out of the camp and looking after him for years.
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* BestFriendsInLaw: Kurt's father and maternal uncles get along well, with one of Kurt's uncles advising his father about how to mispronounce ''Heil Hitler'' in a way that no one will notice.
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* InvisiblePresident: Only the back of Hitler's head is visible, as he passes by in a parade and Elizabeth hands him a bouquet of flowers.
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* NakedNutter: Little Kurt comes home to find his Aunt Elizabeth totally naked, playing the piano. She is having a schizophrenic episode.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Seeband smokes a cigarette for the first time in the movie, after finding out that his old Nazi mentor Burghard Kroll has been arrested.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: After Kurt and Ellie married, Professor Seeband become this for Kurt. He insults and belittles Kurt's pursuit of art as a profession, he treats Kurt as an inferior, and he gets Kurt a janitorial job in the institute seemingly to help make ends meet, but really to humiliate him.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: After Kurt and Ellie get married, Professor Seeband become this for Kurt. He insults and belittles Kurt's pursuit of art as a profession, he treats Kurt as an inferior, and he gets Kurt a janitorial job in the institute seemingly to help make ends meet, but really to humiliate him.him.
* OrbitalShot: The camera circles around Elizabeth as she soaks in the sound and feel of the buses, as they all sound off in unison. This shot is repeated at the end when Kurt does the same thing.
* OrbitalShot: The camera circles around Elizabeth as she soaks in the sound and feel of the buses, as they all sound off in unison. This shot is repeated at the end when Kurt does the same thing.
* RuleOfSymbolism: It's very on-the-nose when Prof. Seeband poses for his official portrait in the institute in front of an anatomy skeleton, hanging behind him. Kurt paints the skeleton into the picture, and so Seeband the Nazi eugenicist is immortalized with a skeleton of death looming behind him.
* TitleDrop: In both English and German. Early in the film Elizabeth, while in the middle of a psychotic episode and naked, tells little Kurt to "never look away." She says this again as she's carted away to the euthanasia center. The German one comes at the end when a reporter, evaluating Kurt's exhibit of blurred photos, calls it a "werk ohne autor."
* TitleDrop: In both English and German. Early in the film Elizabeth, while in the middle of a psychotic episode and naked, tells little Kurt to "never look away." She says this again as she's carted away to the euthanasia center. The German one comes at the end when a reporter, evaluating Kurt's exhibit of blurred photos, calls it a "werk ohne autor."
* WallBangHer: An artistic breakthrough is followed by Kurt coming home, taking Ellie's clothes off, and banging her up against the wall. This is how she gets pregnant again, with the baby she carries to term.
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* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: Seeband finds out that his Nazi boss Burghard Kroll has been arrested, when a boy actually comes into a restaurant (the one where he and Kurt are eating), hawking a newspaper with the headline.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Zigzagged. The widespread and horrific systematic evil of the Nazis is shown during the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era scenes, but Kurt's family (including his uncles in the military) and the father of another girl who Seeband sterilizes oppose the Nazis' crimes and philosophies. Kurt's father ''does'' join the Nazi Party to keep his job, but does so reluctantly. Ironically, this costs him his job once the war ends. When he points out that 3/4ths of teachers joined the Nazi part willingly or unwilling, the school superintendent says that he will entrust the safety and education of children to the quarter who never became Nazis. The post-war German civilians are also portrayed fairly positively.
* BaitTheDog: Seeband initially has an unreadable facial expression when he's inducted into the sterilization and euthanasia program. After Kurt's aunt breaks down begging in front of him he seems uncomfortable, and backs out of performing the sterilization procedure himself. Then he calmly condemns Kurt's aunt to death with a stroke of his pencil.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Kurt's father and maternal uncles get along well, with one of Kurt's uncles advising his father about how to mispronounce ''Heil Hitler'' in a way that no one will notice.
* BondOneLiner: When Seeband is interrogated by the Russians, he defends his work in the euthanasia program by saying that he's making more space in the world for the strong. The Russian interrogator tells him that soon there will be one space in the world with a meaningful look. Ultimately, however, he spares Seband's life after the prisoner saves his son's life during childbirth.
* BaitTheDog: Seeband initially has an unreadable facial expression when he's inducted into the sterilization and euthanasia program. After Kurt's aunt breaks down begging in front of him he seems uncomfortable, and backs out of performing the sterilization procedure himself. Then he calmly condemns Kurt's aunt to death with a stroke of his pencil.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Kurt's father and maternal uncles get along well, with one of Kurt's uncles advising his father about how to mispronounce ''Heil Hitler'' in a way that no one will notice.
* BondOneLiner: When Seeband is interrogated by the Russians, he defends his work in the euthanasia program by saying that he's making more space in the world for the strong. The Russian interrogator tells him that soon there will be one space in the world with a meaningful look. Ultimately, however, he spares Seband's life after the prisoner saves his son's life during childbirth.
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* VillainousBSOD: Professor Seeband at the end of the film after Kurt inadvertently exposed his Nazi past and his connection to Kurt's aunt's death through his art. Defeated, Seeband simply prepares to await the inevitability of being re-arrested and this time prosecuted for his crimes for good once the authorities take notice after Kurt's art is released to the public.public.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Kurt's sign-painting boss urges him to apply to art school in a curt, unsmiling speech, while also telling him that his talent can help support his family and create better things than the grim drawings he currently makes but that no one wants to look at.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Kurt's sign-painting boss urges him to apply to art school in a curt, unsmiling speech, while also telling him that his talent can help support his family and create better things than the grim drawings he currently makes but that no one wants to look at.
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* AffablyEvil: He maybe an ex-Nazi and a DirtyCoward fugitive from justice, but Professor Seeband seemingly genuinely cares for his family (despite cheating on his wife), really passionate over his job as a doctor to help patients despite hypocritically partaking in genocide, worried about his bloodline being tarnished by Kurt and despite his dislike of his son-in-law, he appears to interact with him mostly in a polite fashion, while still act condescending towards him at the same time.
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* AffablyEvil: He maybe may be an ex-Nazi and a DirtyCoward fugitive from justice, but Professor Seeband seemingly genuinely cares for his family (despite cheating on his wife), really passionate over his job as a doctor to help patients despite hypocritically partaking in genocide, worried about his bloodline being tarnished by Kurt and despite his dislike of his son-in-law, he appears to interact with him mostly in a polite fashion, while still act condescending towards him at the same time.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Kurt's father, unable to find work after the war as a teacher because of his (admittedly weak) Nazi affiliation, hangs himself.
* DrJerk: Professor Seeband, a gynecologist and secretly a Nazi eugenicist.
* DrJerk: Professor Seeband, a gynecologist and secretly a Nazi eugenicist.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Kurt's father, father is unable to find work after the war as a teacher because of his (admittedly weak) Nazi affiliation, affiliation and hangs himself.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Professor Seeband is cheating on his wife with his secretary.
* YourCheatingHeart: Professor Seeband is cheating on his wife with his secretary.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Professor Seeband is cheating on his wife with his secretary.public.
* YourCheatingHeart: Professor Seeband is cheating on his wife with his secretary.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Kurt's father, unable to find work after the war because of his Nazi affiliation, hangs himself.
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* AffablyEvil: He maybe an ex-Nazi and a DirtyCoward fugitive from justice, but Professor Seeband seemingly genuinely cares for his family (despite cheating on his wife), really passionate over his job as a doctor to help patients despite hypocritically partaking in genocide, worried about his bloodline being tarnished by Kurt and despite his dislike of his son-in-law, he appears to interact with him mostly in a polite fashion.
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* DirtyCoward: Professor Seeband tries his damnedest to avoid persecution for his war crimes as a Nazi doctor and even hid behind the Russian officer after gaining his favor by delivering his son until he learned to the officer is being transferred to Moscow, forcing Seeband to flee to West Germany.
* DirtyCoward: Professor Seeband tries his damnedest to avoid persecution for his war crimes as a Nazi doctor and even hid behind the Russian officer after gaining his favor by delivering his son until he learned to the officer is being transferred to Moscow, forcing Seeband to flee to West Germany.
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* KnightTemplarParent: Professor Seeband attempts to sabotage the relationship between his daughter and Kurt out of not wanting to have genetically inferior grandchildren.
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''Never Look Away'' is a 2018 German film about an East German artist, starting before World War II and spanning three decades in both East and West Germany
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!!Tropes found in ''Never Look Away'':
* LoveObstructingParents: Professor Seeband (secretly a Nazi eugenicist) doesn't approve of Kurt muddying up his bloodline.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse, this appears to be the attitude of the West German art academy.
* YourCheatingHeart: Professor Seeband is cheating on his wife with his secretary.
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!!Tropes found in ''Never Look Away'':
* LoveObstructingParents: Professor Seeband (secretly a Nazi eugenicist) doesn't approve of Kurt muddying up his bloodline.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse, this appears to be the attitude of the West German art academy.
* YourCheatingHeart: Professor Seeband is cheating on his wife with his secretary.
