He is also an obsessive collector of others' photography: antique pornography, goose-stepping German soldiers and images from the Vietnam War.
The police still don the tottering caps of goose-stepping soldiers, but communism in the age of Al Qaeda seems somehow quaint.
Lucy Bachrach first noticed the goose-stepping soldiers marching in Frankfurt while she was shopping on the ritzy Bockenheimer Landstrasse one summer day in the mid-1930's.
Within a minute they were upon him, trumpets, trombones and drums, all played by impeccably uniformed, goose-stepping soldiers.
Holding wreaths, escorted by goose-stepping soldiers, they filed by an eternal flame.
Made in the Chilean artist's native city, Santiago, the film alternates between bizarre incidents set in his family home and scenes of goose-stepping soldiers on parade.
Mr. Meng did nothing to play down this implicit connection, and indeed the amplified sounds of goose-stepping soldiers sent shivers through the audience.
Not surprisingly, few interpreters rival Klemperer in the section in the Finale which (purportedly) depicts goose-stepping German soldiers.
There were also thousands of goose-stepping soldiers, marching in perfect unison.
