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Ironically - and tragically - Akkad was best known for directing a movie about the peaceful messages within Islam.
CNN: Facing up to terror in the Middle East
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Retro movie festivals featuring Weimar directing stars like Lang and Ernst Lubitsch, and actors like Peter Lorre, Louise Brooks and Emil Jannings, happen regularly at the Babylon (Rosa Luxemburg-Strasse 30, babylonberlin.de) and the Arsenal (Potsdamer Strasse 2, arsenal-berlin.de) movie houses.
WSJ: Experiencing the 1920s in Berlin, Germany
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The actor Tony Goldwyn, directing his first movie, and working from a fine screenplay by Pamela Gray, beautifully captures a moment in which the straitened moral world of the lower-middle-class Jewish characters is beginning to open up with necessarily painful results.
NEWYORKER: A Walk on the Moon