Beyond the wall: east-German cinema

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an exploration of east-german cinema through 6 feature films produced by the DEFA (Deutsche Film AG). From the great anti-Nazi film The Murderers Are Amoung Us by Wolfgang Staudte, shot after WWII in Berlin’s ruins, to the magnificent Solo Sunny by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase, the odyssey of a worker dreaming of a singer career to escape her condition, this program offers a political and social radiography of East Germany and its transformations.