{"id":313,"date":"2018-07-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-07-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T10:00:00","slug":"palmyra-filmkritik-filmdienst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/palmyra-filmkritik-filmdienst","title":{"rendered":"Palmyra \u2014 Film Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Filmdienst | Germany 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The essayistic documentary examines the ancient desert city of Palmyra and Europe&#8217;s ambivalent relationship to this place. While the city is famous worldwide for its architectural ruins, interest in the lives of the local population has remained slight.<\/p>\n<p>The film is based on travel footage from 2008 and uses it as the starting point for culture-critical self-reflection from a Western perspective. It addresses the contradiction between touristic enthusiasm for the ancient buildings and indifference toward the underdeveloped region and toward the oppression of its inhabitants under various regimes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Germany 2018 | Director: Hans Puttnies | 98 minutes | FSK: 16+ | Theatrical release: September 6, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmdienst.de\/film\/details\/561873\/palmyra\">\u2192 to the article (Filmdienst)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essayistic documentary with culture-critical self-reflection from a Western perspective. The contradiction between enthusiasm and indifference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","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\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}