Deutschland 83: case study blog tasks
Introduction: Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of Deutschland 83 in the reviews. positive - "It's a perfect moment in a near perfect series" criticism - " Though very much an international package, it has been a bigger comparative hit abroad than at home." 2) Why does the second Guardian article suggest the Germans didn't like the show? It shows a Stasi agent on a "human level", making us "engage with a socialist regime's worldview". The Germans clearly didn't like the way this was portrayed even though the series was well taken in other countries. "The peace movement in the west turns out to be infiltrated not just by soviet agents, but gay soviet agents" - Germany is a very conservative country and so are m...
