Review of Lowlands

Yes! Miss Riefenstahl received funds from Mr Mustache .Innocent gypsies were used as extras,one of the faces I quickly recognized as one of the survivors of Hitler,she was a little girl, who showed up in the documentary later on ,"The Wonderful terrible life of Leni Riefenstahl. It looked like her. But Jack the ripper killed a lot of women.Yes! Jeffrey Dohmmer ate his friends,and never let any one know a head of time, Yes!,The titanic sank ?yes!.Mayer was sympathetic with Marie Antoinette .This is true.Except facts don't deny them just because they were unpleasant.But Remember political correctness promotes censorship to make up for the past to spread communism in a sneaky way.They don't care about Jews or gypsies.It's true that Leni did choose the victims as extras,but she delayed their deaths.May be this might have contributed to a few who survived.But she did no take action in pushing them to the gas chambers.Her crime was like the majority of German crime,apathy and cowardliness. If you don't think until her death the horrors of what she found out after that did not affect her mind,you bet it did.The rest of her life.She might of not have admitted it.But you bet it did. Two middle age actresses play young women in this picture,Leni Riefenstahl playing Martha,Triumph of the Will and S.o.s Iceberg ,and Maria Koppenhoffer playing Donna Amelia,daughter of the mayor too.Like she did in Kora Terry and Das Herz Der Konigin,in which she plays her age,her bossy attitude give her age away trying to play a young daughter.But this is acting.Two stalwart German character actors show up in this film. Aribert Wascher,of It was a grate night after the Ball 1939,Make love to me 1942,Women make much better diplomats 1942, and Frieda Richards,of die Golden Staht fame. Leni attempts to portray a 20 year old by talking less.The lighting throw off her age a bit ,but not much, Bernhardt Minnetti ,as Don Sebastian, is good at playing the evil Marquee that controls the town He just cut off the peasants water supply. He's broke and is planning to marry the Mayer daughter for the money,but he want Martha too.Franz Eichberger plays Pedro the Shepherd honest and hard working.He love's Martha too.this was 1940,one of the character actors ,a short mustache and bearded guy ,the scene in which he tries to grab Martha ,while she dancing, fat and stocky was also in Kora Terry. The editing of the picture and sound is 1950's feel ,of course.You do see those poor gypsy's in the back drop ,but, in a way this might of delayed their murders and even contributed for some of their survival.If this picture was never made all of them would of been murdered quick.Why did it took too long to complete.Money!Also other situation that delayed shooting. Unfortunately,due to the German constitution, It's still banned in that country ,just as the great dictator,1940 is .Subtitled in English. Beautiful digital print.Available at Germanwarfilms.com 02/04/12