Christian Kracht's perhaps most mysterious book - a novel about the history of cinema in dark times 'The Dead', Christian Kracht's fifth novel from 2014, takes us right into the feverish years of the late Weimar Republic, when modern culture, especially film culture, experienced an early blossoming. It tells the fantastic story of a collaboration between German and Japanese film companies against American Hollywood cinema and at the same time describes how mysteriously the lives of the two protagonists of the novel, the Swiss film director Emil Nägeli and the Japanese cultural official Masahiko Amakasu, are related to each other. Performing: Alfred Hugenberg and Charlie Chaplin, Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte Eisner, Heinz Rühmann and Fritz Lang... Book 2026 New