The Unknown Soldier is a German documentary film about the Wehrmachtsausstellung. The editors of New York made it a Critic's Pick and wrote:

Veteran director Michael Verhoeven’s gripping documentary starts with a look at his countrymen’s response to a German exhibit detailing crimes committed by Wehrmacht soldiers during World War II, and then goes on to show how much collective collaboration and organization were required to realize the Nazis’ nihilistic vision. The director does get distracted at times, but as a bitter portrait of how ordinary people commit extraordinary crimes, this is one of the more disturbing Holocaust documentaries of recent vintage.

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The display typeface is Matrix Inline. Derived from the Extra Bold weight of Matrix, this member of Zuzana Licko’s Latin is distinguished by partly open letterforms. It also has decorative diamonds inside the counters of O and Q. For “Der unbekannte” and the subtitle (“What have you done during the war, father?”), it’s paired with caps from DIN Neuzeit Grotesk, the 1970 adaptation of Neuzeit-Grotesk by the German Institute for Standardization.

The director’s credit uses a better known DIN: it’s FF DIN, Albert-Jan Pool’s improvement over DIN 1451. They are shown a bit too small here to be appreciated, but the remaining credits are set in another typeface design by Licko: it’s Senator.

Michael Verhoeven died this week at the age of 85. RIP.

The final letter in “SOLDAT” is custom made. For comparison, the glyphs for T, dagger (†), and double dagger (‡) as included in Matrix II Inline Extra Bold.

Sleeve for a 1974 single by Moroccan folk rock band Jil Jilala.

The Latin setting of “Jil Jilala” suggests any of a number of ultralight geometric sans serifs – a stretched L&C Hairline with alternates? – but the J is so unusual and otherwise impractical (perhaps it's meant as a subtle visual rhyme with ل, the last letter of “Jil” in Arabic) and the other letterforms so elemental that it seems likelier hand drawn. The very fun Arabic setting is clearly hand drawn, perhaps modeled after Candice. The Latin setting of “Lighara” is in Blippo Bold, which is cleverly repurposed for the Arabic. Evidently the uncredited designer was down to their last dry transfer sheet—only necessity would lead one to render ي as U with cedilla. Other Jil Jilala singles with the same artwork set the yaa much more sensibly.

On the back, the Latin “Jil Jilala” is set in ITC Ronda and the Arabic a flashier version of the adapted Blippo. The credits are set in Chambord italique and maigre, which would suggest that the copyright and catalog number are set in Simplex but the numbers instead point to DIN Neuzeit Grotesk.

Remembering Patsy by Brian Mansfield, Rutledge Hill Press/Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2003. Book design by Bruce Gore / Gore Studio, Inc.

Remembering Patsy Cline, cover of the CD compilation, MCA Nashville, 2003.

Art Direction: Richard Frankel
Design: Jean Krikorian

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