Following the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, events in East Germany started happening fast. Faster than DEFA could keep up with. Less than a year after that first batch of East Germans streamed into West Berlin in their Trabants, the GDR ceased to exist. Yet DEFA soldiered on, buffeted mercilessly by …
Tag: Michael Gwisdek
The Actress
One might think that, by 1988, there was stone left unturned when it came to Nazi-era Germany in the movies. There were films about the Holocaust, the resistance, the start of the war, the end of the war, and the daily lives of soldiers and ordinary people on both sides; there were science fiction films, romances, …
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