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Creator:: Heiduschke, Sebastian
Abstract:: This article examines the strategies used by directors of the East German film monopoly Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) to voice their disapproval of the Berlin Wall.1 My aim is to show how it was possible, despite universal censorship in East Germany, to create films that addressed the wall as an inhumane...
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Full Text:: (Konrad Petzold, 1961), Der geteilte Himmel (Konrad Wolf, 1964), and Die Architekten (Peter Kahane, 1990

Creator:: Heiduschke, Sebastian
Abstract:: Directing feature films in the GDR was largely a male-dominated profession. One of the few female directors was Iris Gusner, whose films explored issues working GDR women faced in their everyday lives. A close reading of her 1984 feature film Kaskade Rückwärts, in particular the focus on sound and on...
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Full Text:: DEFA after graduating to join 6 Konrad Wolf as the assistant director on his film Goya (1970

Creator:: Heiduschke, Sebastian
Abstract:: Directing feature films in the GDR was largely a male-dominated profession. One of the few female directors was Iris Gusner, whose films explored issues working GDR women faced in their everyday lives. A close reading of her 1984 feature film Kaskade Rückwärts, in particular the focus on sound and on...
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Full Text:: DEFA after graduating to join 6 Konrad Wolf as the assistant director on his film Goya (1970

Creator:: Heiduschke, Sebastian
Abstract:: The cinema of the GDR has seen a steep rise in popularity since German unification. DEFA is now a popular “brand,” with its films being omnipresent on television, in movie theaters, and on DVD, Blu-ray, and online streaming video. Reasons for this success are located in the current infrastructure of...
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Full Text:: power structure that to some was reminiscent of colonial attitudes, with East Germany turning into the

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