13th GSA Film Series |
Life Lessons: The Films of Herrmann Zschoche |
Flashback: DEFA Turns 70! |
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We celebrate the 70th anniversary of DEFA’s founding with two short programs as part of ARTS NIGHT at this year’s GSA conference in San Diego! They take place on Thursday evening, September 29, in Royal Palm Salon 3 at the Town & Country Convention Center. |
We are happy to announce director Herrmann Zschoche's visit to the Five Colleges in November 2016. His visit will include free public screenings and discussions with students, faculty and the community, and screenings at other local institutions, including Trinity College and the Goethe Institute Boston. |
We invite you to celebrate DEFA's 70th birthday with film screenings at your institution in 2016! |
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DVD Releases
Käthe Kollwitz: Images of a Life
Käthe Kollwitz (Jutta Wachowiak) is 47 years old and already a well-established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteers to join the German army in WWI and gets killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changes Kollwitz’s life and art forever. She becomes a radical pacifist; in her art she reflects on her son and...
Film rentals
Karger
At thirty-something, Karger is a steelworker who has never left the little town between Leipzig and Dresden where he was born. His life has been monotonous and predictable. He reaches a turning point when he divorces his wife, whom he has loved since childhood, and his father passes away. Ephemeral solutions are short-lived, however. Karger...