
A scholar defends prostitution before the World Court..

Richard Oswald
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Richard Oswald's "Prostitution" erupts onto the screen not as titillation but as a Molotov cocktail hurled at Weimar Germany's moral complacency. The year is 1919 – a nation reeling from defeat, revolution, and hyperinflation – and Oswald weaponizes cinema to dissect how societal collapse commodifies the female body....


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Richard Oswald

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" Richard Oswald's "Prostitution" erupts onto the screen not as titillation but as a Molotov cocktail hurled at Weimar Germany's moral complacency. The year is 1919 – a nation reeling from defeat, revolution, and hyperinflation – and Oswald weaponizes cinema to dissect how societal collapse commodifies the female body. Forget courtroom procedural; this is expressionist jurisprudence where chandeliers cast guilt-laden shadows and marble columns seem to sweat under the weight of collective hypocri..."


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