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Filming of Zweig Novel, “amok”, Barred by Nazis

August 20, 1933
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Film production of a scenario based on the well-known book, “Amok,” by Stefan Zweig, has been prohibited by the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment for reasons of “home and foreign considerations.”

Lola Kreuzberg, who prepared the film scenario for the production, approached the ministry for permission to go ahead with the filming. The ban on the production, she was told, was because Zweig, one of Germany’s greatest living novelists, is on the Nazi blacklist and his books were burned publicly.

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