DEFA Film Library turns 25!25 Screenings for 25% Off |
Angel Wagenstein Duo |
Culture in the Cold War:East German Art, Music and Film |
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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! |
Screenwriter and novelist Angel Wagenstein is the link between two films to be screened by the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, the DEFA Film Library and Amherst Cinema, April 11-12, 2018. |
This NEH Institute for College and University Teachers will take place at UMass Amherst from June 17 to July 14, 2018. Applications due March 1, 2018. Culture in the Cold War |
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DVD Releases
Held for Questioning
In the fall of 1945, only a few months after WWII, 19-year-old German POW Mark Niebuhr arrives with other prisoners at a train station near Warsaw. When a Polish woman accuses him of being the Nazi officer who killed her daughter, Mark is thrown into a Kafkaesque nightmare of accusations and persecution—first in solitary confinement, then among...
Film rentals
Malik
Brothers Wieland Herzfelde and John Heartfield tell the story of their publishing house, Malik, which specialized in avant-garde art and leftist literature. All Malik titles were confiscated by the Nazis and included in the infamous 1933 book burning. Malik continued publishing until 1947, however, first in Prague, then in London, and finally in...