Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director G.W. Pabst, who briefly worked in Hollywood before returning to Austria and working with the Third Reich, inspired Daniel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Daniel Kehlmann joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Director,' a historical fiction novel about filmmaker G.W.

If movies are a place where dreams come true and nightmares are made real, what do films say about history? And can the pursuit of art as a civilizing influence ever mitigate the horrors taking place ...

In the German legend, Faust signs a contract with the devil, exchanging his immortal soul for vast knowledge and other earthly rewards. It's a cut-and-dried transaction. In Daniel Kehlmann's new novel ...

Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, “The Director,” an engrossing meditation on the exigencies of art and the dangers of artistic complicity, lands in the United States at a good time. Which is to say, a ...

When do compromises turn into full-blown capitulation? Daniel Kehlmann's new novel draws on the true story of German film director G.W. Pabst. A filmmaker in Nazi Germany strikes a deal with the devil ...