From de.wikipedia.org : Der Schuh des Manitu, eine 2001 entstandene Parodie der Karl-May-Verfilmungen der 1960er Jahre, gilt mit 11,7 Millionen Besuchern und 65 Millionen Euro Umsatz an den Kinokassen als einer der erfolgreichsten deutschen Filme seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
…It’s parody of German stereotypes of America and Native Americans as they were portrayed by Mark May .
A small group from the German House made the trip to Observatory hill tonight to take a look through the telescope. They didn’t even point the telescope at the moon, because you could only see a small fraction of its surface through it. They had a portable one for the eclipse. What we could see [...]
Join us at the German House for an evening of “German Games” and German conversation. Even if you know little or no German, come to see the house, we’ll translate.
The film features special effects and set design that still impress modern audiences with their visual impact—the film contains cinematic and thematic links to German Expressionism, though the architecture as portrayed in the film appears based on contemporary Modernism and Art Deco. The latter, a brand-new style in Europe at the time, had not reached mass production yet and was considered an emblem of the bourgeois class, and similarly associated with the ruling class in the film.
Join us at the German House for an evening of “German Games” and German conversation. Even if you know little or no German, come to see the house, we’ll translate.
