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Teaching Materials for the Film "A Bomb Was Stolen" | The Celluloid Curtain | bpb.de

English Version: The Celluloid Curtain About the Film Series Curatorial Essay Welcome Speech by Thomas Krüger Video Clip The Films A Bomb Was Stolen For Eyes Only Haber´s Photo Shop High Season for Spies Rendezvous with a Spy Skid Starling and Lyre The Great Spy Chase The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The 1000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse There is Nothing Finer than Bad Weather The Cold War in the Cinema Truth and Fiction Panel Discussion Film Educational Material Material: A Bomb Was Stolen Material: For Eyes Only Further bpb Material Links

Teaching Materials for the Film "A Bomb Was Stolen"

This film is one of the few examinations of the arms race debate from both an artistic as well as a comic standpoint. In a fictitious country, a criminal organisation and uniformed troops battle it out to get control of an atomic bomb, whilst the unwitting hero of the film reluctantly carries it around with him. Slapstick is one of the ingredients in this dialogue-free – but easily understandable – parody of both the spy film and American cinema. School students work on the themes of humour and stereotyping, interpret the film in the context of the nuclear arms race and develop an alternative ending against the background of the political situation in the 1960s.