What conservative MEP also found a movie based on his novel entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival?
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The Commissioner (film) The Commissioner is a 1998 Belgian-German drama film directed by George Sluizer and written by Christina Kallas based on the novel of same name by Stanley Johnson. It was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Stanley Johnson (writer) Stanley Patrick Johnson (born 18 August 1940) of West Nethercote, Winsford, Somerset, is a British politician and author, and an expert on environmental and population issues. He was a Conservative MEP for Wight & Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984 and is a former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission. He is co-chairman of Environmentalists for Europe (E4E), a collection of pro-EU environmentalists campaigning for the UK to remain a member of the EU.
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Running Dog (novel) Running Dog is a 1978 novel by Don DeLillo. At its center is a rumored pornographic film of Adolf Hitler, purportedly filmed in his bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall. The novel follows a journalist as she tries to penetrate a murky black market of wealthy erotic-art collectors in order to locate the film. The tale grows increasingly wild and violent as she closes in on this bizarre grail. The book derives its title from a fictional "underground" once-radical magazine. This publication also featured in "Great Jones Street".
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Nuit de chien Nuit de Chien ("This Night") is a 2008 French-German-Portuguese drama film directed by Werner Schroeter. It is based on the novel "Para esta noche" by Juan Carlos Onetti. It was entered into the competition at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.
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Call Me Dave Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron is a 2015 book by Michael Ashcroft, a businessman and Conservative peer, and Isabel Oakeshott, a political journalist, about the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron. The book, excerpts from which were published in the "Daily Mail" prior to publication, received significant media attention, particularly relating to allegations made about Cameron. It is published by Biteback, a company in which Ashcroft has a majority share, run by political blogger Iain Dale.
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Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland The Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (German: "Bürgerlich-Demokratische Partei Schweiz" , BDP; French: "Parti bourgeois démocratique suisse" , PBD; Italian: "Partito Borghese Democratico Svizzero" , PBD; Romansh: "" , PBD; all translations mean literally "Citizens' Democratic Party of Switzerland") is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Since the 2015 General election, the BDP has seven members in the National Council and one in the Council of States.
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Hitler Youth Quex Hitler Youth Quex (German: "Hitlerjunge Quex" ) is a 1932 Nazi propaganda novel based on the life of Herbert "“Quex”" Norkus. The 1933 film "" was based on it and was described by Joseph Goebbels as the "first large-scale" transmission of Nazi ideology using the medium of cinema. Both the book and the film, like "S.A.-Mann Brand" and "Hans Westmar", both released the same year, fictionalised and glorified death in the service of the Nazi Party and Hitler.
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The Party (2017 film) The Party is a 2017 British comedy film directed by Sally Potter. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Pole Poppenspäler (1954 film) Pole Poppenspäler is an East German film. It was released in 1954. It is based on the 1874 novel "Pole Poppenspäler" by 19th-century German author Theodor Storm.
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Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an English-American novelist. His best-known works include "The Berlin Stories" (1935-39), two semi-autobiographical novellas inspired by Isherwood's time in Weimar Republic Germany. These enhanced his postwar reputation when they were adapted first into the play "I Am a Camera" (1951), then the 1955 film of the same name, "I Am a Camera (film)"; much later (1966) into the bravura stage musical "Cabaret (musical)" which was acclaimed on Broadway, its unsparing stance being substantially sweetened for the film "Cabaret" (1972). His novel "A Single Man" was published in 1964.
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The White Ribbon The White Ribbon is a 2009 black-and-white German-language drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke. Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (literally, "The White Ribbon, a German Children's Story") darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I and, according to Haneke, "is about the roots of evil. Whether it’s religious or political terrorism, it’s the same thing."
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Mary Queen of Scots (2013 film) Mary Queen of Scots is a 2013 Swiss period drama directed by Thomas Imbach. It is his first film in English and French language starring the bilingual French actress Camille Rutherford. The film portrays the inner life of Mary, the Queen of Scotland. The film is based on Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig's 1935 biography, Mary Stuart, a long-term bestseller in Germany and France but out of print in the UK and the US for decades until 2010. The film was first screened at the 2013 International Film Festival Locarno and was later shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
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It Can't Happen Here It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, and a 1936 play adapted from the novel by Lewis and John C. Moffitt. Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a politician who defeats Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes a plutocratic/totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of Adolf Hitler and the SS. The novel's plot centers on journalist Doremus Jessup's opposition to the new regime and his subsequent struggle against it as part of a liberal rebellion. Reviewers at the time, and literary critics ever since, have emphasized the connection with Louisiana politician Huey Long, who was preparing to run for president in the 1936 election when he was assassinated in 1935 just prior to the novel's publication.
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Hotel Berlin Hotel Berlin is a drama film set in Berlin near the close of World War II, made by Warner Bros. in late 1944 to early 1945. Directed by Peter Godfrey, it stars Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey and Andrea King. It is based on the novel "Hotel Berlin '43" by Vicki Baum (New York, 1944), a sequel to "Menschen im Hotel", which was itself adapted to film as "Grand Hotel" (1932).
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The Golden Notebook The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by Doris Lessing. This book, and the two that followed it, enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in "The Oxford Companion to English Literature" has called Lessing's "inner space fiction", her work that explores mental and societal breakdown. The book also contains a powerful anti-war and anti-Stalinist message, an extended analysis of communism and the Communist Party in England from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a famed examination of the budding sexual and women's liberation movements. "The Golden Notebook" has been translated into a number of other languages.
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P. J. O'Rourke Patrick Jake O'Rourke ( ; born November 14, 1947), known as P.J. O'Rourke, is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly", "The American Spectator", and "The Weekly Standard", and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!". Since 2011 he has been a columnist at "The Daily Beast".
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Black Like Me (film) Black Like Me (1964) is an American drama film based on the book "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin. The journalist disguised himself to pass as an African-American man for six weeks in 1959 in the Deep South, to report on life in the segregated society from the other side of the color line. The screen play was co-written (with Gerda Lerner) and the film was directed by Carl Lerner. The film stars James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, and Roscoe Lee Browne.
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The Turning Point (1983 film) The Turning Point (also screened with the English name "Held for Questioning"; German: "Der Aufenthalt" ) is a 1983 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren and Klaus Piontek. The film is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Hermann Kant, which was based on Kant's own experience as a prisoner of war in Poland. The film tells the story of a German prisoner of war at the end of World War II who is wrongly accused of being a war criminal. The film was controversial upon release as Polish commentators criticized that the film showed the Polish army wrongly accusing someone of war crimes. Nevertheless, the film was successful and won several awards and was the East German official submission to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Grete Minde Grete Minde is a 1977 Austrian-German drama film based on the novel by Theodor Fontane and directed by Heidi Genée. It was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival.
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The Charterhouse of Parma (film) The Charterhouse of Parma (French: "La Chartreuse de Parme" , Italian: "La Certosa di Parma" ) is a 1948 French-Italian drama film based on the novel of the same name by Stendhal. It entered the competition at the 1948 Locarno International Film Festival, being awarded for best cinematography.
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Conservative Party Review (2016) The Conservative Party Review (2016) is a set of internal reforms within the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom. It was the brainchild of Conservative Party Chairman, Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree, and has been regarded as the widest-reaching and most radical internal reforms in the Conservative Party since the 1940s.
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Then She Found Me Then She Found Me is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Helen Hunt. The screenplay by Hunt, Alice Arlen, and Victor Levin is very loosely based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Elinor Lipman. The film marked Hunt's feature film directorial debut.