De Pabst a Goebbels: el cine de  Weimar según Manuel Villegas López

Manuel Villegas López (1906-1981) was one of the most important film critics to emerge in Spain during the Silver Age. Throughout his career he echoed the German cinema of the Weimar era both in his work as a critic and as a film historian. The article studies his assessment of cinematography in the 1930s of the last century. It uses the reviews, articles, and lectures he wrote. Villegas was dazzled by titles such as Variety (Varieté, 1925), Melodie of the Heart (Melodie des Herzens, 1929), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1931), The Song of Life (Das Lied vom Leben, 1931), Girls in Uniform (Mädchen in Uniform, 1931), The Murderer Dimitri Karamasoff (Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff, 1931), or the French-German co-production Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932). He also warned of the dangers of Dawn (Morgenrot, 1933) and Nazi cinema