In 1989, the government in the GDR had begun to relax its restrictions on artistic expression, allowing films to explore topics that would have been taboo a few years earlier. It was too little too late. The whole edifice came crashing down spectacularly on November 9th, 1989. The few films that were already “in the …
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Damn It, I’m Grown Up
East Germany lasted forty years. During that time—DEFA, the state’s film production company—made roughly 950 films. Not many when you consider that the film studios in India make more movies than this in a year.1 Nonetheless, during those years, DEFA made several movies exploring the hopes, fears, and dilemmas faced by young people in the …
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