WENDE FLICKS Set

This eleven-DVD set presents eight feature films and four documentaries made by East German filmmakers in the period leading up to and after the fall of the Berlin Wall – that is, the Wende period, or great turning point in contemporary German history. With extensive bonus features, these films give insight into the challenges of film production in a period of radical upheaval; please see individual film pages for more information.

This collection includes the following feature films:

• The Architects (Kahane, 1990)
  A young architect struggles to effect change in East Germany
• Herzsprung (Misselwitz, 1992)
  Three years after the Wall, unemployment and racism are rampant
• Jana and Jan (Dziuba, 1991)
  Two teenagers in juvenile detention, where their love is taboo
• The Land beyond the Rainbow (Kipping, 1991)
  A harsh, yet poetic critique of Stalinism
• Latest from the Da-Da-R (Foth, 1990)
  The satire of cabaret-artists Mensching & Wenzel
• Miraculi (Weiß, 1991)
  Avant-garde images of a universal uncertainty and shattered world
• The Mistake (Carow, 1991)
  An East-West love story – when such love was illegal
• Silent Country (Dresen, 1992)
  A tragicomedy set in the last months of East Germany

This collection includes the following documentaries:

• Leipzig in the Fall (Kroske/Voigt, 1989)
  The Monday demonstrations of the Peaceful Revolution
• Eastern Landscape (Schreiber, 1991)
  The East as a landscape of discarded lives (On the Leipzig in the Fall DVD)
• The Wall (Böttcher, 1989/90)
  A poetic meditation on the Berlin Wall
• whisper & SHOUT (Schumann, 1988)
  A look at the East German punk & glam rock scene of the 1980s