S5E12 - Ross Benjamin on 'The Director' (Nominated for the International Booker Prize-2026)
Published: April 3, 2026
Duration: 23:28
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"Can a work of art ever truly be washed clean of the hands that funded it? Is it possible to create a masterpiece in the shadow of a monster? Today, we are exploring these haunting questions through the lens of The Director—the latest novel by the brilliant German author Daniel Kehlmann. Set against the harrowing backdrop of the late 1930s and 1940s, the story follows the legendary film director G.W. Pabst as he returns to Nazi-occupied Austria.
Pabst finds himself ensnared by the propaganda machine of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Mi...