Cinema and History

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. 

Murderers among us

Wolfgang Staudte

1946
1h25
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Divided Heaven

Konrad Wolf

1964
1h56
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Trace of Stones

Frank Beyer

1966
2h30
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Solo Sunny

Konrad Wolf / Wolfgang Kohlhaase

1979
1h44
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Winter Adé

Helke Misselwitz

1988
1h56
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Coming out

Heiner Carow

1989
1h53
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Films in the Retrospective