The Director
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Dec 2025 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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Zadie Smith👍 Recommends
…zadie smith recommends the director by daniel kehlmann about filmmaker complicity
“Well, right now I'm reading The Director, which is by my Austrian friend Daniel Kilman. It's a wonderful book about the filmmaker W.G. Pabst, who went back to Germany in the middle of the war and made movies all the way through the war. It's very like The Fraud. Like, he read The Fraud first because I hadn't read his in translation yet. And he said, these books are the same. And reading it, I realized they are the same. They're about complicity and the complicity of art, particularly in horror.”
The Ezra Klein Show — Best Of: Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phonesat 55:06
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