Everything you need to understand or teach The Director by Daniel Kehlmann.
Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director is a historical novel told through shifting close third-person perspectives that follows a celebrated filmmaker and those around him as Europe slides into dictatorship and war. Moving between exile, return, and aftermath, the narrative traces how professional ambition, fear, and loyalty reshape private lives, especially within a family trapped by political power and personal compromise. The plot centers on filmmaking under Nazi control, a lost production that haunts its makers, and the long shadows cast by choices made for survival. Main themes include artistic integrity versus propaganda, complicity and moral compromise, memory, exile and belonging, and wartime trauma.
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