The Founder's Fundfor Student Researchers |
DEFA Film Library turns 25!25 Screenings for 25% Off |
Screened EncountersThe Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990 |
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The Founder’s Fund is being established in honor of Founding Director Barton Byg, with the goal of supporting student researchers from outside of the Five Colleges. Check back soon for details of this program starting in 2019! |
We’d like to celebrate our 25th anniversary with you! PLEASE JOIN US! The first 25 people to contact us about screening one of our films at their cinema, cultural institution, university or college in 2018 will get 25% off our regular screening fee! |
Volume one of our new book series—Screened Encounters: The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955–1990, by Caroline Moine—is now available for 50% off! Enter MO1097 when you check out at Berghahn Books! |
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DVD Releases
Dusk: 1950s East Berlin Bohemia
Berlin in the 1950s: divided, but not yet walled. Young artists, at the start of their careers and seeking a new lifestyle, frequented the East Berlin cafés and bars that were meeting places for intellectuals, as well as Cold War secret service agents and black marketeers. Former East Berlin bohemians gather at Ganymed, the legendary...
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His Excellency, Comrade Prince
Kasper Mai, an export merchant and comrade with a “clean” record, discovers he is the prince of Hohenlohe-Liebenstein. His royal grandmother designates him as the heir to her estate. A private trip to her reveals that she does not want a NATO airbase built on her land. The GDR and his grandmother thus find a common interest, and a clever...