{"id":303,"date":"2018-09-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:00:00","slug":"palmyra-die-seele-der-syrischen-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/palmyra-die-seele-der-syrischen-nation","title":{"rendered":"Palmyra, the Soul of the Syrian Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Review by Rolf Brockschmidt | Der Tagesspiegel | September 11, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The critic discusses an essay film by Hans Puttnies about the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria. Puttnies visited the site in 2008 and turned his footage into a film after ISIS destroyed the city in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The director presents Palmyra as a European ideological construct. The film offers archaeological documentation and addresses the Roman history of the metropolis, which served as a trading buffer between the Roman and Persian empires.<\/p>\n<p>A central problem of the film lies in its use of ISIS propaganda material. The critic points out that Puttnies &#8222;uncritically adopts ISIS propaganda videos from the internet,&#8220; including documented executions. This is judged &#8222;unbearable and unforgivable,&#8220; since it amplifies the reach of terrorist content.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighted positively is a drive through modern Tadmor with a trader, as well as a conversation with the 15-year-old souvenir vendor Mohamad. His statement ultimately refutes Puttnies&#8216; thesis: &#8222;The ruins are in my heart.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The article ends with the observation that Palmyra embodies &#8222;the soul of the Syrian nation,&#8220; which is why ISIS sought its destruction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesspiegel.de\/kultur\/palmyra-die-seele-der-syrischen-nation-5531299.html\">\u2192 to the article (Tagesspiegel)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strongest moment: a motorcycle ride through Tadmor with 15-year-old Mohamad, who describes the ruins as part of his own identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zeitung","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}