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Woman and the Stranger, The
Original Title: Die Frau und der Fremde
East Germany, 1984, 97 min., color
Director: Rainer Simon
Karl and Richard, two German soldiers captured by the Russians in World War I, become very close friends—so close that Richard shares intimate stories about his wife, Anna. Through these stories, Karl falls in love with her in his thoughts. When Karl escapes and goes to Richard's home, Anna knows he is not her husband.
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Land Beyond the Rainbow, The
Original Title: Das Land hinter dem Regenbogen
Germany, 1991, 89 min., color
Director: Herwig Kipping
This harsh yet poetic critique of Stalinism in East Germany centers on the mythical village of Stalina in 1953. The villagers legitimize injustice by glorifying “real existing socialism” … at the same time as they experience their own destruction by the system. This DVD presents the director’s cut of the film.
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Leipzig in the Fall
Original Title: Leipzig im Herbst
East Germany, 1989, 50 min., b/w
Director: Andreas Voigt, Gerd Kroske
The most comprehensive documentation of events surrounding the 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany. The film includes interviews with demonstrators, members of the citizens’ rights movement, officials and bystanders in East Germany’s peaceful revolution. Bonus: Eastern Landscape by Eduard Schreiber.
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Herzsprung
Original Title: Herzsprung
Germany, 1992, 87 min., color
Director: Helke Misselwitz
In the little town of Herzsprung almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it. The feature Film debut by Helke Misselwitz (Winter Adé, 1988).
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Mistake, The
Original Title: Die Verfehlung
Germany, 1991, 100 min., color
Director: Heiner Carow
It is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) knows about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. A Wende film by Heiner Carow, the director of Coming Out and The Legend of Paul and Paula.
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Jana and Jan
Original Title: Jana und jan
Germany, 1991, 84 min., color
Director: Helmut Dziuba
Fall 1989: Jan is almost 16. Caught while trying to escape to West Germany, he is transferred from prison to a juvenile detention center. Here, he meets Jana … and what starts as a bet, becomes true love. When Jana gets pregnant, the situation spirals out of control. In the summer of 1990, Jana and Jan flee into the unknown, insecure future of a new Germany.
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Latest from the Da-Da-R
Original Title: Letztes aus der DaDaeR
Germany, 1990, 86 min., color
Director: Jörg Foth
In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel – highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns – satirize East German life in its final days and the arrival of new times after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Miraculi
Original Title: Miraculi
Germany, 1991, 113 min., color
Director: Ulrich Weiss
A group of young people draws straws to see who’ll steal some cigarettes. With this theft, Sebastian starts a bizarre, symbolic odyssey through a sclerotic world, in search of himself and of truth and justice. When he tries withdrawing from one social paradigm, he finds himself caught in another. A political allegoric film by director of Your Unknown Brother.
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whisper & SHOUT
Original Title: fluestern & SCHREIEN
East Germany, 1988, 115 min., color
Director: Dieter Schumann
Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie features young people using music to express their take on life, opposition to their parents’ generation and opinions on the social and political climate in East Germany.
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Latin American Trilogy
Germany/Ecuador, 1994-2002, 130 min., color
Director: Rainer Simon
Since making his feature film about the explorer Alexander von Humboldt in Ecuador, The Ascent of Chimborazo (1989), director Rainer Simon’s work has focused on the life and culture of the indigenous people there. Three of the short films he shot in Ecuador are on this DVD.
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