Hoppla vi lever (1987)

About the German artist George Grosz (1893-1959) and his paintings from the World War I and the Weimar Republic. The political climate and mental atmosphere of the German 20th century is nowhere captured as in Grosz. In his heart-breaking intersections of satire and realism, the whole menagerie of currency hogs and coupon clippers, politicians and jacks, war invalids and whores, the happy 20th century's desperate "hop we live" stand out against a fund of bottomless misery. Here, inflated nationalism, the spirit of domination and subjugation, corruption and incompetence, the paradoxical mix of clairvoyance and blindness with the paralyzing sense of impending disaster are mixed.