Intelligence and Creativity Can Help to Change the Course of History: "NO"/ "The Charlatan"

No

2012 Film

No is a 2012 Chilean drama film directed by Pablo Larraín. The film is based on the unpublished play El Plebiscito, written by Antonio Skármeta. 

Initial release: August 9, 2012 (Chile) Director: Pablo Larrain Running time: 118 minutes Initial DVD release: May 8, 2013 (Sweden) Screenplay: Pedro Peirano Cast: Gael García Bernal, Néstor Cantillana, Amparo Noguera, More

Harry Thürk was a German writer. Wikipedia

Born: March 8, 1927, Biała Prudnicka Died: November 24, 2005, Weimar

. After taking a variety of jobs, he became a journalist for a number of different newspapers and had the opportunity to work as a reporter in Southeast Asia during theVietnam War and also in Korea. He claimed to have been affected by Agent Orange with lifelong effects.

 Between 1956 and 1958, he worked with the Chinese magazine China Pictorial. After additional travels in East Asia between 1964 and 1980 (includingLaos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Korea, China), he returned to Weimar. There between 1971 and 1983 he was the chairman of the writers union in Thuringia.

In 1995 he resigned from the German PEN organization.With his 2004 book Treffpunkt Wahrheit Thürk had published sixty books altogether, including novels, nonfiction, and children's books, as well as fixteen screenplays. His topics and exciting prose made him especially popular in East Germany, and he had altogether nine million works printed in nine different languages. However, he remained relatively unknown in West Germany.

Among his best-known works are the anti-war novel Die Stunde der toten Augen and the novels Amok and Der Gaukler. Many of his novels take place in Southeast Asia