Max Pearson
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Ja mitäs me laitetaan sulle tähän?
Hello, this is the History Hour with Max Pearson.
This week's story is as featured on Witness History here on the BBC World Service.
We're going to the cinema.
Great moments from the world of film, including propaganda or art.
The Nuremberg Nazi rallies in Lenny Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will.
Also, the social impact of an Indian blockbuster.
Plus the making of Casablanca and the mixing of fantasy and fascism for the young star of Pan's Labyrinth.
But first, Jen Dale takes us back to the 1950s and the release of a Japanese movie, one that is widely acknowledged as among world cinema's most influential films.
It is up to the viewer to choose how they feel about the film.
In translation, that was Hiso Kurosawa, son of the film director Akira Kurosawa, speaking to Jen Dale about the making of Seven Samurai.
Sarah Gilani is a lecturer in the Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries at City St George's University of London, and Sarah is a specialist in Asian, African and Arab cinema.
So let's start, Sarah, with Seven Samurai as our jumping off point, if you like.
It was made in the 1950s as Japan was recovering and rebuilding after the defeat in the Second World War.
So would Kurosawa and other filmmakers in Japan at that time have been, if you like, remaking the idea of Japanese cinema?
And if we're going to talk about world cinema, the history of world cinema, we can't obviously cover everything.
But if we look at world cinema, we have to reference Asian cinema and Bollywood.
So if we go back to the 1950s, about the same time as Seven Samurai, would that have been something of a golden age for Indian cinema?
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