The World of Yesterday but hated politics and shunned political engagement. His autobiography shows some reluctance to analyse Nazism as a political ideology; he tended simply to regard it as the rule of one particularly evil man, Hitler. Zweig was struck that the "Berghof", Hitler's mountain residence in Berchtesgaden, was just across the valley from his own house outside Salzburg. Berchtesgaden was an area of early Nazi activity. Zweig believed strongly in Europeanism against nationalism. Zweig also describes his passion for collecting manuscripts, mostly literary and musical. Zweig collaborated in the early 1930s with composer Richard Strauss on the opera "Die schweigsame Frau", which
The Mountain of the Cannibal God an orange cream by two native girls for what appears to be a session of honey torture, but instead she is turned into a living goddess. Manolo is tied up and tortured, while the others are eaten. Manolo and Susan eventually escape after enduring the ordeal. The film was shot on location in Sri Lanka. "The Mountain of the Cannibal God" was released in Italy on August 10, 1978. The film was not seen in the US until 1980. The "Monthly Film Bulletin" called it a "spiced up dish of left overs" plot-wise but said the location filming gave it