WENDE FLICKS Set
Original title: (Wende Flicks)
Director:
Böttcher, Jürgen |
Carow, Heiner |
Dresen, Andreas |
Dziuba, Helmut |
Foth, Jörg |
Kahane, Peter |
Kipping, Herwig |
Kroske, Gerd |
Misselwitz, Helke |
Schreiber, Eduard |
Schumann, Dieter |
Voigt, Andreas |
Weiß, Ulrich |
GDR,
1988/1992,
colorIn German; English subtitles
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