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WENDE FLICKS DVD COLLECTION
(East) Germany, 1988-1992, color
Director: Andreas Dresen, Andreas Voigt, Dieter Schumann, Gerd Kroske, Heiner Carow, Helke Misselwitz, Helmut Dziuba, Herwig Kipping, Jörg Foth, Juergen Boettcher, Peter Kahane, Ulrich Weiss
This 11-DVD set presents eight feature films and four documentaries made by East German filmmakers in the period surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall With extensive bonus features, these films give insight into the challenges of film production in a period of radical upheaval.
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A Berlin Romance
Original Title: Eine Berliner Romanze
East Germany, 1956, 81 min., b/w
Director: Gerhard Klein
Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall: Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West, but also loves the bright shop windows in his part of the city. The flashiness of this new world soon vanishes into reality, however, when Hans loses his job.
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Blum Affair, The
Original Title: Affaire Blum
Germany, 1948, 105 min., b/w
Director: Erich Engel
In detective-story style, this film portrays conservative nationalism prior to Hitler's rule, based on a 1926 court case in Magdeburg. One of few German movies that deal with the anti-Semitic roots of Nazism, this film remains an important historical document.
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Destinies of Women
Original Title: Frauenschicksale
East Germany, 1952, 105 min., color
Director: Slatan Dudow
Berlin, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for happiness and a good man in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny.
Now seen as a richly contradictory work by the Dudow/Eisler/Brecht creative team that also made Kuhle Wampe in 1932.
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Five Cartridges
Original Title: Fünf Patronenhülsen
East Germany, 1960, 85 min., b/w
Director: Frank Beyer
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), five International Brigade soldiers of different nationalities are given a crucial assignment as their commander lies dying: they are to smuggle top-secret information across enemy lines. Shot mainly in Bulgaria and starring Academy nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl (Shine, Jacob the Liar), this film was a young Frank Beyer's stylistic tour de force.
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Just Don't Think I'll Cry
Original Title: Denk bloss nicht, ich heule
East Germany, 1965, 91 min., b/w
Director: Frank Vogel
High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider to be a challenge to the state.
Just Don’t Think I’ll Cry became one of twelve films and film projects—almost an entire year’s production—that were banned in 1965-1966 due to their alleged anti-socialist aspects.
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Look at this City
Original Title: Schaut auf diese Stadt
East Germany, 1962, 85 min., b/w
Director: Karl Gass
Fast-paced montage of the history of Berlin WWII to 1961 argues that the Wall was a defensive necessity against Communism's Cold War enemies. A strikingly modernist documentary in support of the Berlin Wall.
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Somewhere in Berlin
Original Title: Irgendwo in Berlin
Germany, 1946, 85 min., b/w
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht
After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father’s return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless…
By the director Gerhard Lamprecht, who also directed Emil and the Detectives (1931, script Billy Wilder).
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Story of a Young Couple, The
Original Title: Roman einer jungen Ehe
East Germany, 1952, 99 min., b/w
Director: Kurt Maetzig
A young married couple—both actors—work in Cold War Berlin before the Wall is built. Agnes is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen, her husband, works at the Westend Theater in West Berlin. They hold diametrically opposed views on politics, art and the responsibility of the individual to society. As they have vehement arguments, their marriage is in danger of breaking up.
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Until Death Do Us Part
Original Title: Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet
East Germany, 1978, 92 min., color
Director: Heiner Carow
Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get married and have a child. When Sonya wants to go back to work after her maternity leave, they clash for the first time; Jens insists that she remain a full-time wife and mother.
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