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The Big Lift (1950): Image and Identity in Blockaded Berlin
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 46, Number 2, Winter 2007
- pp. 66-90
- 10.1353/cj.2007.0019
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract: Addressing a film seldom granted critical attention, this essay examines George Seaton's semidocumentary The Big Lift (1950), situating the film in relation to other postwar genres, Cold War politics, and a Berlin still largely in ruin. Entering a physically complex and ideologically contested terrain, this film unfolds as a surprisingly sophisticated foray into issues of identity, appearance, and deception in the blockaded city.