The Persons Involved (Die Beteiligten) was released in June 1989. It was the last Kriminalfilm (Krimi) released by DEFA before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's based on an actual crime that occurred back in the early sixties. The film follows the story of two police inspectors investigating the drowning death of a young …
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The Woman and the Stranger
The Woman and the Stranger (Die Frau und der Fremde) was released in 1985, less than five years before the Berlin Wall came down. Like many late-period DEFA films, it concentrated less on the concerns of the collective than on individual needs. It's probably for this reason that the film found an audience in West …
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