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The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.

Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?

A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »

On the travels of Karl-Markus Gauß, and the unlikely guardians of the dream of Europe.

You could tell the US army had arrived because the local garages had sold out of whiskey. Old maps, new wars & vanishing memories along the Polish-Ukrainian border.


No one would have understood both the sentiment and the absurdity more keenly than Marx himself, whose face has adorned real currencies in more countries than anyone else’s, with the possible exception of Elizabeth II.