

There are films you watch; then there are films that watch you. Karl Grune’s Wer unter Euch ohne Sünde ist belongs to the latter—an unblinking kino-essay that anticipates both Freudian dread of The Sin That Was His and the social scalpel later wielded by Fassbinder. Shot entirely on UFA’sbacklot yet reeking of actual...
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" There are films you watch; then there are films that watch you. Karl Grune’s Wer unter Euch ohne Sünde ist belongs to the latter—an unblinking kino-essay that anticipates both Freudian dread of The Sin That Was His and the social scalpel later wielded by Fassbinder. Shot entirely on UFA’sbacklot yet reeking of actual Berlin alleyways, the picture marries expressionist shadow-play to reportage-like candor, producing a moral vertigo potent enough to make even jaded cinéastes shift in their seats..."


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