The Founder's Fundfor Student Researchers |
Authority and Alterity in East German Movies:Political Experiments, Rebel Youth and Civil Unrest |
Art and Power:Lutz Dammbeck |
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The Founder’s Fund, established in honor of retired founding director Barton Byg, aims to support the work of student researchers interested in East German cinema and DEFA Film Library collections. Application guidelines now posted! |
Tenth biennial Summer Film Institute of the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst May 31 – June 6, 2020 Applications due April 6, 2020 |
The DEFA Film Library is very pleased to premiere the complete cinematic oeuvre of German filmmaker and media artist Lutz Dammbeck in North America. |
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Midnight Revue
Famous producer Otto Kruse brags that he will produce a successful, new kind of revue film. When the project is close to failing, he orders his stage manager to “do what it takes.” Soon his young female assistant finds...
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Thomas Müntzer
This film documents the last years of the great Reformation-era peasant leader Thomas Müntzer: his marriage to Sister Ottilie von Gersen; the effect he has as a radical preacher in Allstedt; his flight to southern Germany;...