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2 A Thursday, September 20,1984 Daily Nexus 'New Directions In Rim' & I^r,e9 ^ndFrieden': Germany's Atomic Cafe “ Germany’s answer to The Day After,” reads a press release. J. Hoberman of the Village Voice calls it, “ The most p<dent nuclear film since Atomic Cafe. The comparisons Jare obvious, but Krieg un$'0n&den/War and Peace offers something which oftenM all too easy for Americans to-eypriook: the Cold War sod the nuclear arms race from the per spective of West Germany and other countries of middle Europe. Krieg und Frieden is presented as “an anti nuclear collage by Volker Schlondorff, Heinrich Boll, Alexander Kluge, Stefan Aust and Axel Engstfeld.” Collage Is a good word for it. Volker Schlondorff, left, and Alexander Kluge on the set of “Kill Your SqL 2U, 7:30 P.W. Many of the segments tend Krieg und Frieden. U.C.S.8. Evadi Cairn to wander a bit, but others go Sister,” an episode from ; M2 SiuM i M3 Gtutul PuMú - Rim uoI Staling - straight to their marks. One reminiscent of old Twilight with images of war-ravaged the unfortunate political - Ticini» «Ktttatfe al (kt A.S.U.C.S.B. Ticfctl (Mice, - particular misfire is the Zone episodes, and not good Beirut. balance-of-power struggle : Mewing Gtou) Minie. AitúgÍM Ticket Agem/. faHkmi Rtwdt. • collection of fictional ones at that. But Schlondorff In the opening segment, whose roots go back so many Cheap ThuiBi m Son luí» OÚ4». Cmpec. Suit Minia. Aiateadm vignettes depicting sur redeems himself with his contrasting the evolution of decades, West Germany has Fat maw wkemaUea 961-2064 vivors of a nuclear war, sardonic footage of the 1982 the planet earth with the become the playing board in produced by A.S. Program Board I Rock'n Chair Production* written by Boll and directed summit talks between threat of its destruction, and this madman’s game of by Schlondorff. The several western heads of in the fictional segment in nuclear “ deterrence” as a segments are somewhat state at Versailles, intercut which a general is means of keeping the peace. questioned about the place of Drawing parallels between the traditional infantryman the Cuban Missile Crisis and in a nuclear confrontation,itionJ kthe stationing of several Alexander Kluge’s slighg h « l hundred cruise missiles and opaque style lends itself' v J l Pershing II missiles, in to the depiction of the futility ion to those already and absurdity of war.AJso by the Americans included in the fitea' is on West German soil, the Great Western coverage of / the “ march of film S43I l that what \ve are the 300,000” peadEdenmi- «x$*r!«icing is “ the stration in Bonn, andexerpts Cubanization of the Federal from newsreewl German R^pidAi^p^rmany.” feature filmgj| and CBS Despite Ike eneven has something News’ reporLJTfw Defeat* of sequences, |9kief und the United Fried»« Is St impelling Militarjr ^ ® and statement- W te te M llo g ica l others of questionable arguments which spur the competence determine our arms race, and on the im lives, the narrator tells us, potent position we take in the betterthan . as the band plays and Ron unstable world which that and Nancy smilingly greet arms race reflects. 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When he discussed the professor with Astrov, pre-revolutionary Russia is the theme of Anton Chekhov’s his wild gestures and loud voice suggested a jovial, open Uncle Vanya, the current offering from Santa Barbara’s personality. In fact, during the opening scene I was Ensemble Theatre Project. Recognizing the complex prepared to fault Weiss with overacting. But it soon became character of Chekhov’s drama, Director Joseph Hanreddy apparent that Weiss’s exuberence and energy were forced. presents a balanced, traditional approach to the Russian Gradually Weiss lets go of this vitality until we see his classic. character as a man without a sense of purpose. To make The play centers around a family of Russian gentry who like bearable, he drinks. “ At least it gives the illusion of live on a country estate. They are Serebriakov, a retired life,” he says in defense of alcohol. professor, Yelena, his (youthful) second wife, Sonia, his While Weiss appears to let go of his vitality, Jerri Lee daughter by his first wife and Vanya, his first wife’s Young, who plays Yelena, is lifeless throughout the per brother. Astrov, a doctor who lives on a neighboring estate, formance. Except for the slightest tilt of her head, she is frequently visits the professor’s family. A longtime friend motionless during the opening scene in the garden. Because of Vanya, he unknowingly becomes the object of Sonia’s of her elegant costumes, she stands out from the rest of the love and falls helplessly in love himself with Yelena. The players. It seems like we are supposed to watch her, but to play explores the conflicting relationships between its watch her is boring. When he declares his love for her, characters while it shows us the despair that arises from Astrov tells Yelena that her idleness is contagious. The their misplaced affection and the frustration these people doctor has evolved fi;om an active man, passionately in feel at being “ entombed” in the country. terested in his work, to one who neglects his patients. The set, designed by Thomas Buderwitz, helps convey a But Astrov, played by Ed Romine, is unique in Uncle sense of this entombment. The stark, gray limbs of trees Vanya. He expresses hope for the future. “ The people who which have lost their leaves are visible behind a skeletal come a hundred years or a couple of hundred years after wall. When the character are in the garden, the wall is us...perhaps they’ll find a way to be happy,” he op merely a frame, but when they move inside the frame is timistically predicts. Although Astrov claims to be filled in with slats to form a wall. Although we can still see miserable, he is a happy man in comparison with the rest of the trees, we get a sense of a wall closing in and shutting the characters in the play.