The Train: When is Art Worth Dying for?

By Published on August 21, 2015

The Train was re-released earlier this year in a new DVD edition from Kino Lorber; it is also available via Amazon Instant and other services.

Recent news that two men in Poland claimed to have found a legendary Nazi cargo train allegedly loaded with plundered artwork — as well as gold and gems and other treasures — comes on the heels of the horrific story a few days earlier of the beheading of 82-year-old Syrian antiquities scholar Khaled al-Asaad, who endured more than a month of interrogation and finally execution rather than cooperate in the plundering and trafficking of priceless Libyan artifacts.

Assad’s willingness to suffer and even die for the sake of the cultural legacy to which he had devoted decades of his professional life invokes philosophical questions for which there are no obvious answers.

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