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Originally Posted by Vendor
The film, Valley of the Wolves: Palestine, opens this weekend. It has already stirred controversy for its simplistic portrayal of Israelis as brutal oppressors of the Palestinians.
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The movie's opening in Germany, which has a large Turkish community, was delayed by a day while the official film regulator considered how to rate it. Some German politicians have condemned it as anti-Semitic.
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mostly accurate, but there is no "official film regulator" here, lol. Films get rated by the industry themselves, comparing to the mpaa in the US. Their age ratings however are mostly legal binding .
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Does it!? Last thing I learned about it was that it was officially banned over charges of racism and inflammatory hate propaganda. I mentioned this in one posting here or in another thread.
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When you describe something, make it accurate and not look like films gets banned by a snip of the finger in Germany. I dont know what your sources are, but a ban of the film was not in stated anywhere. The whole thing revolved around the question if the film gets a rating from the german movie rating organization FSK or not.
Please check out the difference between rated 18, not rated, indexed (indiziert), and confiscated (beschlagnahmt). You'll find a good overwiew here:
http://www.medienzensur.de/
What you descibe as banned would mean that a movie is violating german laws, and would eventually be forbidden. This means in reality that the movie must not be shown in public, nor that its' distribution is allowed. The posession is still legal, even in the case of being banned.
When a film is not rated, or put on index, it is still possible to watch him in cinema, however no minors and no advertisement would be allowed.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
It did start indeed. The ban has been changed into an age 18 movie.
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There was no ****ing ban!
How can it change then?
I am very sensitive when it comes to censorship issues, that's why I think it's impoprtant to go with the facts.
And I find it rather odd that the same people who cry "suppression of speech", when it comes to their own opinion are the same people who demand censorship when it comes to other voices...
They want the same laws, which are used against them, to use against opposing views.