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One of my best memories on the relationship of cinema and politics was at (Adriano) Aprà's cine-club, called "Filmstudio", where Straub's The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp (1968) was projected: Cohn-Bendit, surrounded by his friends, attacked the film. For him, war and capitalism at the cinema was seeing tanks in Vietnam, to show that in the shots, and he criticized Straub for showing nothing. Straub replied that he did not make the film for students, but for "Cineac" stations*, for prostitutes and pimps. The dialogue was cut short.