The Broken Jug

From the perspective of Silberman, no film, no matter what the subject matter may be, could be wholly free from some ideological underpinnings from its source culture. He makes the point that this is especially true of the Nazi era films, which on first glance may seem innocuous, but as he points out, this is by Goebbels design. while there are many features that could be explored as possible links to the National Socialist ideology, I am partial to the aspect of authority, corruption, and order. The Nazi obsession with order and the role of the authority to create it are not lost in this film. Like Silberman, I believe that the original Kleist play, was less inherently national socialist rather than its ability to be easily appropriated as such. The subject of a corrupt authority that oppresses the Volk, who is then expelled from the community by a seemingly omniscient ruler can easily be put into the context of the Nazi ideal towards the intrinsic order of things. Is the ideology overt? Well, no. not necessarily. Does it allow for an easy propagation of Nazi ideas, yes, it probably does.