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Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Only a few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was “an infamous and brutal act against our brothers and sisters in the Zone.” Director Walter Heynowski digs into this ubiquitous West German expression, using footage from West German Newsreels and TV programs, and compares the life of “BROTHERS AND SISTERS” in East and West Germany. Tracing the common interest of workers in both...
2) Love Letters
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Director Uwe Belz focuses his attention on viewing Karl Marx from an alternative perspective, showing the emotional and romantic sides of the historical figure. Passages from LOVE LETTERS that Marx and his fiancée, Jenny von Westphalen, exchanged as teenagers blend with paintings and beautifully atmospheric photographs of places connected to Marx. The letters and poems are read by well-known East German actors, such as Jenny Gröllmann and Dieter...
3) Our Children
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as goths, skinheads, anti-skins, punks and neo-Nazis were dismissed as social deviations promoted by western countries. Director Roland Steiner had access to such young East Germans in the late 1980s. Over the course of four years, he brought them before the camera in an attempt to understand what drew...
4) Cell 364
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (4 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that questions the sustainability of our contemporary democracies.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
This documentary tackles a difficult and politically sensitive East German environmental issue taking place in the early 1980s. South of Leipzig, villages are being demolished to make way for open-pit mining. For almost four years, the film crew follows two of these communities and, as the landscape changes, so do the lives of the people. It is a struggle for the older generation, in particular, to leave their familiar homes, but some of the younger...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (218 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
In HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME, German filmmaker Thomas Heise shares the stories of three generations of his family, tracing the contours of the major historical uphevals that afflicted Germany in the 20th century. Uncovering journal entries, photographs and contemporary footage, Heise creates a poetic meditation on individual and collective history.
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
8) Regina
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Diana Groó’s documentary tells the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944) a strong woman, who made history by becoming the first properly ordained woman rabbi in the world.The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish peddler, Jonas grew up in Berlin’s slum, studied at the liberal Hochschulefür die Wissenschaft des Judentums (College for the Scientific Study of Judaism) beginning in 1924,and was ordained in 1935. At age 37, she met the love of her life, Rabbi...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (61 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film documents a vital moment in the re-building of a city center, where the Berlin wall once stood. Within a few years Pariser Platz was rebuilt, accompanied by an extensive public debate about the quality of the new architecture and the merits of the city planning for the area. An imposing assembly of internationally acclaimed architects found new solutions for the ten buildings that once defined the site, among them the American embassy. Featured...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Over the course of a year, starting in March 1989, director Kurt Tetzlaff follows Alexander Schulz, an 18-year-old high-school student and son of a pastor. Alexander openly discusses his non-conformist political views. Full of hope, he joins the citizens’ movement in fall 1989; but after the first free elections held in the GDR on March 18, 1990, he realizes that his hopes are in vein.
12) REALFilm
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck and musician Robert Linke, is a reflection on the medium of film and its elements: sound, light and movement. Dammbeck’s goal is to cleanse these elements of ideology and then commerce and compose a new film out of them. The process is played out in the space in real time. Recorded in Leipzig on May 14, 1986,...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
After Dammbeck’s original film project Herakles (Hercules) was rejected by the East German DEFA Studios in 1983-84, the artist was still fascinated by the Hercules story. He started experimenting with different media combinations, including overpainting, photography, film clips, collage, painting and movement. These experiments resulted in groundbreaking multi-media collaborations and in the film THE CAVE OF HERCULES, in which Dammbeck explores...
Publisher
Kandoo Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A STEP WITHOUT FEET is a documentary about sharing our cultures through universal themes like music, family, friends, and art. Within the backdrop of Berlin, we captured the daily lives of seven extraordinary Syrians exiled from their home.
15) Children’s Home
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (25 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
A film about children and teenagers living in an East German CHILDREN'S HOME in Mentin, Mecklenburg in the late 1970s. They talk openly about their past experiences, how they affected their lives and why they ended up in the home, describing unstable home situations, domestic violence and their parents’ alcohol abuse. But these young people also share their hopes for the future. This documentary was produced as an opening film for Roland Gräf’s...
16) Nazi Art Thieves
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film examines the mechanisms of Nazi extortion during World War II, and is interspersed with current issues surrounding restitution. It retraces the incredible stories of three major works having belonged to Jewish collectors. From their plundering by the Nazis to their final restitution: Man with a Guitar by Georges Braque, Herbstsonne by Egon Schiele and Sitting Woman by Henri Matisse.
17) Paragraph 175
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Nazi persecution of homosexuals may be the last untold story of the Third Reich. Directed by Oscar winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (COMMON THREADS: STORIES FROM THE QUILT and THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK), PARAGRAPH 175 fills a crucial gap in the historical record, and reveals the lasting consequences of this hidden chapter of 20th century history. These are stories of survivors - sometimes bitter, but just as often filled with irony and...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Angela Merkel has become a global icon and yet remains an enigma. Her absolute professionalism, her determination to protect her private life and to reduce her press statements to a minimum have made her elusive. Who really knows Angela Merkel? What kind of woman is she? And what legacy does she leave us? In this exclusive film, we go in search of the real Angela Merkel. Director Marion Van Renterghem has been following Merkel for the last decade....
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this experimental short, Lutz Dammbeck relocates his Leipzig-based artists’ circle, known as the Herbstsalon (Autumn Salon), to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland. In 1929, La Sarraz was the site of a legendary congress held by leading European avant-garde filmmakers—including Sergei Eisenstein, Béla Balázs, Ivor Montagu, Hans Richter and Walter Ruttmann—who wished to create an independent cinema as a forum for discussing issues such as elitist...
20) Sound of Heimat
Publisher
Rushlake Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the musical road movie SOUND OF HEIMAT New Zealand-born musician Hayden Chisholm sets off on a discovery trail of German folk music that takes him across the country. A foreigner with an unbiased eye on German culture and an open ear for the lyrics and melodies of modern and traditional music, he discovers a lively variety of regional customs and practices. Directors Arne Birkenstock and Jan Tengeler also shed light on the widespread ambivalence...
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