BERLIN - Germany’s Weimar Republic is broadly painted as an abject failure, the post-World War I period of hyperinflation, famine, ineffective leadership and other woes that helped give rise to ...

Weitz has to take this route. If his Weimar is Berlin, and Berlin is the source of cultural optimism and creativity, then Nazi domination must be some sort of aberration. But it's a weak argument.

The Temporal Symptom. This relates to a timeline of events, said Smith, explaining how the film gives the impression that the Weimar Republic only refers to the early 1930s, the period directly before ...