German director Volker Schlondorff, has explored his country’s dark history in such films as “The Tin Drum,” “The Ogre” and “The Legend of Rita.” Now he returns to the Nazi era in the latest film, “The Ninth Day.”
A Russian prosecutors office, after declining to investigate an anti-Semitic letter signed by 20 Duma members, is investigating a Jewish group that published a 500-year-old religious text that the letter had called offensive to Orthodox Christians.
