Selection of films from the DEFA Archive, Germany
Posted by Magic Lantern Foundation
on January 31, 2012
Still from 'Germany – Final Terminal East'
Persistence Resistance 2012 will be presenting a selection of rare films from the archive of the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA).
The DEFA retrospective presents films from the former East German film studio which have been selected with the aim of providing an overview of film production in the erstwhile German Democratic Republic. Twenty-two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, they bear witness to everyday life in East Germany. As part of Germany’s cultural heritage, they are an important source for understanding the history of divided Germany.
The selection features a small section of DEFA Foundation’s mammoth collection comprising 950 feature films, 820 animation films and more than 5800 documentary films that were produced between 1946 and 1992 in various DEFA studios. The retrospective is part of an on-going process of preserving DEFA films as a rich reservoir of Germany's national cultural heritage.
The five films in a dedicated Video Parlour will play in a continuous loop through the day, allowing the viewer to enter the programme at any particular moment and continue till the cycle completes.
Venue: India International Centre, Gandhi King Plaza
Date: 13 – 15 February; 11:00 AM to 09:00 PM
DETAILS OF THE FILMS
After Winter Comes Spring Winter adé
Director: Helke Misselwitz
English (subtitled), 94 min, 1988, Germany
A film about the rather different lives of several women in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), ranging from 16-year old punk girls to an old grandmother.
Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel
Director: Vaclav Vorlicek
English (subtitled), 82 min, 1973, Germany
The classic fairy tale of “Cinderella and the little glass slipper” but with a twist.
Germany – Final Terminal East Deutschland – Endstation Ost
Director: Frans Buyens
English, 77 min, 1964, Germany
An interview with people from different social levels of the GDR population and with the foreigners who study in the GDR.
Wittstock Girls Mädchen in Wittstock
Director: Volker Koepp
English (subtitled), 20 min, 1974, Germany
A film about the women workers of the textile industry in the German state of Mark Brandenburg, their thoughts and their spare-time occupations.
Locked up Time Verriegelte Zeit
Director: Sibylle Schönemann
English (subtitled), 90 min, 1991, Germany
Imprisoned by the GDR in 1984 and released to the FRG in 1990, Sibylle Schoenemann goes back to question those responsible.
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