Film Screening: Touristic Intents- Can a Building be Guilty?
- Event Type
- Ceremony/Service
- Sponsor
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Location
- Levis Center Room 210
- Date
- Nov 4, 2024 5:00 pm
- Views
- 65
- Originating Calendar
- LAS International Programs Events
Touristic Intents is a feature documentary film that explores the connection between mass tourism and political ideology. The film is centered on a case study: the never completed Nazi resort of Prora, on Germany's Baltic sea, which was built on a mammoth scale beginning in 1936 to house 20,000 vacationing working-class Germans. This 4-mile long building was used in propaganda to forward a promise of leisure time for the masses and strengthen sympathies between the workers and the Nazi party. The film asks: Is there an obligation to remember a building's dark past?