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1930, Berlin. The renowned Swish, movie director Emil Nägeli is accepting an extremely interesting proposal: to travel at Japan to direct a significant movie that will establish the dominion of Hitler’s future empire in cinema business. What most people don’t know is that Nägeli has collaborated with the Jewish film critic, Lotte Eisner and German sociologist and film theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, in order to expose Third Reich with a monumental, avant garde and symbolic horror movie that will become a warning for the impending atrocities of Nazism.
Meanwhile in Japan, the Minister of Cinematography, Masahiko Amakasu wishes to defy the growing Hollywood effect and lead Japanese cinema to a new, golden era via the cooperation with his liaisons in Germany and Switzerland.
The arrival of Nägeli’s fiancée and of the world-famous actor Charly Chaplin, along with the critical political and military circumstances, create a widened turbulence in Japan that force Amakasu and Nägeli to face their own demons and the prospect of their self-destruction.
The narrative is structured like a Noh play with three acts and with the history of cinema as background, this novel scrutinizes the conspiracies planned between Tokyo and Berlin. This is a story about personal ghosts, similar to Faust’s style, that detects present and feeds from the horror of future dominance and upsetting perseverance to a dark past. Enlightening issues like childhood, inner self, loss and the aesthetical duty through his deep sensitivity, humor and envisaging force, the author is establishing his fame as one of the most original representatives of contemporary literature.
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