4th Annual GSA Film Series

Premiere 2007
German Studies Association conference
San Diego CA

The fourth GSA Film Series highlighted the early films of director Andreas Dresen, including: Silent Country, Train in the Distance, Far from Klein Wanzleben, The Rats Sleep at Night, and Shortcut to Istanbul. Silent Country was Dresen's feature film debut; the other titles are short films he made as a student at the Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Other films screened included director Peter Kahane's The Architects and a selection of East German cartoons made between 1975 and 1990.