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41) Theater Work
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1975.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
From May to October 1974, Peter Voigt filmed at the Berliner Ensemble (BE) during the 25th anniversary of the theater’s founding. Voigt, a member of the BE himself in the 1950s, interviewed theater technicians who had been part of the world-famous ensemble for decades. Sharing experiences, memories and impressions from their particular point of view, they paint an intriguing picture of the theater’s history. This documentary, originally shot on...
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This Oscar-nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler's rise to the power.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1957.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (17 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
This portrait of East German sculptor and graphic artist Fritz Cremer (1906-1993) shows the artist at work in his studio and some of his art works, including sculptures for his Buchenwald Memorial. It accompanies the images with a text by Bertolt Brecht, read by actor Wolfgang Heinz of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
44) Hotel Terminus
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (267 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and epic Academy Award-winning examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon", HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE weaves together forty years of footage and interviews culled from over 120 hours of discussion with former Nazis, American intelligence officers, South American government officials, victims of Nazi atrocities and witnesses.
45) Duke Ernest
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Young DUKE ERNEST wants to become a good knight, but circumstances are not in his favor. The Emperor—who wants to claim the Duke’s castle and marry his mother—has Ernest wrongfully accused of murder and jailed. The only way to escape death is to enlist and go in search of the legendary Carbuncle Stone. Along the way, Ernest encounters carnivorous rocks, magnetic mountains, the giant bird Roc and many fantastical adventures. Dammbeck worked on...
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Go to the front lines of World War II in this war documentary, chronicling a group of Jewish agents for the American OSS who infiltrated Nazi territories, many of them German Jews returning to avenge Hitler's sinister acts.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In fall 1984, Lutz Dammbeck and five other young Leipzig artists secretly organized the sensational exhibition they called 1. Leipziger Herbstsalon (FIRST LEIPZIG AUTUMN SALON) in protest of official art exhibitions and failed reforms in the East German art market. The private exhibition lasted almost a month and challenged the authority of cultural officials. This film shows original footage, shot by cinematographer Thomas Plenert, of the artists...
49) Insurance Man
Publisher
Rushlake Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
In 2009, Mehmet Göker’s company MEG AG was Germany’s second-largest health insurance brokerage. His aim was to become the world’s most important finance broker. But things did not work out that way. INSURANCE MAN tells the story of Memet Göker, the absolute ruler of an insurance empire that he ran like a cult. A profound look at the modern financial and working world.
50) Overgames
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (164 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
While channel surfing in 2004, Lutz Dammbeck saw West German TV game show host Joachim Fuchsberger explain that he had based his successful early-1960s game show, *Nur nicht nervös werden* (*Just Don’t Get Nervous*), on an American show called *Beat the Clock*, which made use of games developed for use in psychiatric therapy. When asked how many patients had watched his show, Fuchsberger answered: “A nation! A crazy… mentally disturbed nation.”...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1967.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
At 47, German sculptor and graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) lost her beloved son Peter in WWI. She began to process her grief in drawings and sculptures, including the famous memorial The Grieving Parents, and became increasingly active in protesting social injustice. She often used the Goethe quotation "Seed corn should not be ground!" as an argument against senseless war and the killing of millions of young men. When her memorial was finally...
52) Düerer's Heirs
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
A 1961 painting by Harry Blume is at the center of this film: beside the painter himself, artists Werner Tübke, Bernhard Heisig, Heinrich Witz and Hans Mayer-Foreyt appear in the painting. All five members of the first postwar generation to study art at the Leipzig Academy for Graphic and Book Design when it reopened in 1947. Some of them went on to become professors at the academy. Director Lutz Dammbeck, himself an alumnus of the academy, presents...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
The German-German border in the late 1950s: The collectivization of agriculture is in full swing in the East German village of Willshagen. Those in charge have to face many obstacles, especially from a large-scale farmer who is unwilling to join the co-op. All of a sudden, mysterious men in a fancy car appear in the village and show an interest in the rundown manor house. Gossip spreads quickly, and some villagers think there will be a re-parceling...
54) Midnight Revue
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1962.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Famous producer Otto Kruse brags that he will produce a successful, new kind of revue film. When the project is close to failing, he orders his stage manager to “do what it takes.” Soon his young female assistant finds herself holding a dramaturg, composer and set designer hostage in a villa—with orders to keep them there until they create a cheerful revue film. The hostages fear it is impossible to please both the public and the critics. Only...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1952.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
After years in Soviet captivity, farmer Heinz Weimann returns to the village of Bärenweiler, in West Germany. His joy at returning home is clouded by news that US occupation forces intend to build an airfield on village lands, in preparation for a confrontation with the Soviet Union. The villagers are expected to move out. The villagers turn to the government and local bishop, but receive no assistance. Led by Heinz, they protest peacefully—but...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (42 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
In 1986, after suffering many obstacles and interference in his work, Lutz Dammbeck moved to Hamburg, West Germany. Two years later, in an attempt to start anew, he explores his decision and tries to sort out his past as an artist. In the process, he interviews artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib, who had been core members of the alternative art scene in East Germany. They had all worked together in the 8mm-scene and...
57) Dusk
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Berlin in the 1950s: divided, but not yet walled. Young artists, at the start of their careers and seeking a new lifestyle, frequented the East Berlin cafés and bars that were meeting places for intellectuals, as well as Cold War secret service agents and black marketeers. Former East Berlin bohemians gather at Ganymed, the legendary restaurant near Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble. In the early 1990s, soon after the fall of the Wall, they recall...
58) Time of the Gods
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
While working on his Hercules Concept, director Lutz Dammbeck began to study the life and work of the German sculptor Arno Breker (1900-91). How could a highly talented sculptor who had met French avant-garde artists in Paris in the 1920s, and whose works were first labeled as “degenerate art” become one of Adolf Hitler’s and Albert Speer’s preferred sculptors and protégé? In trying to find an answer, Dammbeck met with contemporaries and...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. Millions all across occupied Europe saw his films, the most perfidious of which was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film *Jew Süss*—required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure—save for Leni Riefenstahl—is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years as that of Joseph Goebbels'...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1968.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Originally banned by Communist Authorities, Heiner Carow’s semi-autobiographical film was not approved for final production. Officials argued it focused on an ordinary Nazi follower, rather than an antifascist hero, and that it was “contaminated with modernism.” The film, which includes clips from the Nazi propaganda film Kolberg (1945), was finally reconstructed and released in 1987. As the end of WWII is fast approaching, 16-year-old Günter,...
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