It is kinda funny how Goebbels was a full on cinephile to the point of keeping personal copies of films he banned. Like despite condemning it officially for anti-Nazi themes he secretly loved The Testament of Dr Mabuse and was known to screen it for personal friends. Like I wonder if the Nazis did the right wing equivalent of "art vs artist" discourse. Himmler calling up Goebbels to say "um, oomfie, I love your writing but… a little problematic of you to praise Battleship Potemkin. You don't need to support Communist propaganda by Slavic Jews"
tbh being a CCP film censor sounds like the film auteur's dream and you can just do vulgar Marxist critiques all day. Imagine a retired CCP censor doing youtube videos and critiquing movies.
well SOMEONE had to watch them to know if you need to censor them you know…