Post-Secularism and Presentism in Hugo Niebeling's St. John Passion Film: Es wäre gut, daß ein Mensch würde umbracht für das Volk (1991)
Abstract:Although it never reached substantial audiences, the film version of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion that German filmmaker Hugo Niebeling (1931–2016) completed in 1991 and released on DVD in 2009 is in many respects remarkable, mostly because it unwittingly anticipates key issues regarding (staged) pe...