Making movies out of historical matter is a fraught business. The “facts” may be “correct”, but they may be presented in such a way that they completely alter the meaning of an event. Or a story may be mostly invented, but still have great psychological and philosophical insights about its subject. Moreover, due to the practical limits of filmmaking, a movie usually contains one element that acts as a sort of narrative anchor, and this anchor will be the thing that…
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