film will be at Stockholm Filmfestival

["Robert Nathanson" <robert.nathanson@martin-co.se>]

This film will have its official premiere at Sthlm International
Filmfestival in november

Greetings

Jesper Wachtmeister
Regissör
-----Original Message-----
From: Bertil Haggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>
To: ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk <ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Date: den 31 augusti 1998 20:33
Subject: Swedish EJ TV Interview Program


>Thought maybe the info underneath
>might be of interest to the listmembers.
>
>With Juengerian greetings
>
>Bertil Haggman
>
>
>Martin & Co - Project One
>
>In February 1996, Jesper Wachtmeister and Bjoern Cederberg took
>the train from Stockholm to Wilflingen in Germany.
>They were hoping to be granted an interview with the German
>writer, Ernst Juenger, who for many years notoriously had refused
>to give any more interviews.
>
>Jesper and Bjoern went to the local Guest-house "zum Loewen" to
>find out whether Juenger was at home or not - he was at home.
>
>They hadn't travelled all this way in vain.
>
>Dressed up nicely in their Sunday best dark suits, they walked
>over to Juenger's home and knocked on his door.
>
>They were lucky, reluctantly Liselotte, Juenger&acute;s wife, let
>them in for what would be the first of four rare and unique
>interviews.
>
>Few people have lived in the nucleus of European events for such
>a long time as Ernst Juenger. He has been dwelling in the central
>areas of power, of European culture, politics and science since
>the 1910:s. He has been taking part in crucial calamities and
>catastrophes that for a long time tore our continent asunder in
>ways that are still hurting. He has been following the currents
>of ideas that have marked and characterised our century from the
>moment they were born until they became extinct, or proved
>vigorous enough to survive -  Futurism, communism, fascism,
>existentialism, the hippie movement, to name a few.
>
>At the age of 102 Ernst Juenger was probably the only European
>still alive that had moved within so many disparate milieus or
>met so many of the personalities who took a central part in
>forming our century. In 1918 he received, in person, the highest
>German military honour from Hindenburg. During the 1920s, he
>discussed politics with Berthold Brecht and Goebbels in Berlin,
>and in the 1940s, art with Picasso in Paris. He also discussed
>philosophy with Heidegger. During World War II, he conspired
>against Hitler with Rommel and Stauffenberg. In the 1950s he and
>his friend Albert Hofmann were the first to experiment with LSD.
>On his 100th anniversary, he was visited and celebrated by
>Mitterrand and Helmuth Kohl.
>
>The film 102 YEARS IN THE HEART OF EUROPE portrays the 1900s in
>Europe from the viewpoint of Ernst Juenger. This is a film about
>our century, about secularisation. A film about the occidental
>man's emancipation from God and Christianity, by trying to
>establish himself on the evacuated throne. The result is a
>technical evolution where the amount of knowledge is doubled
>every 5 to 10 years and the creation of societies based on
>consumption, economical growth and a common welfare net. In
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>viewing the news-reels from our century, one becomes aware of the
>formal similarities between the three major different ideologies
>communism, fascism and liberalism. They all have an unrestrained
>belief in technical progress, the mass movements and the
>idolisation of the worker.
>
>The film becomes a view of how the cult of these systems has
>effected our thinking in the 20th century. At the same time this
>becomes a comment to Ernst Juenger's life and writings - as
>contradictory and controversial as the history of the 20th
>century.
>
>102 YEARS IN THE HEART OF EUROPE contains the last interviews
>ever made with Ernst Juenger. Ernst Juenger died on February 17,
>1998 - in March he would have been 103 years old.
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