ARTS in EXILE
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ARTS in EXILE
Original title: (KUNST im EXIL)
Director:
GDR, n/a, 204 min, color/b&w
In German; English subtitles
Presented here are nine short films that feature: film director Slatan Dudow; actor Martin Brandt; authors Erich Fried, Erich Weinert, and Arnold Zweig; photographer Walter Ballhause; cartoonist Leo Haas; and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch. Original interviews with the artists, close family members, and friends are combined with little-known historic film material.
This collection includes the following titles, all produced in the GDR:
- Arnold Zweig (Joop Huisken, 1962)
- Erich Fried: The Whole World Should Endure (Roland Steiner, 1988)
- Even Today He'd Speak His Mind (Volker Koepp, 1975)
- Leo Haas: Artist and Witness of His Times (Jörg d'Bomba, 1971)
- Malik (Giovanni Angella, 1967)
- Do You Know Where Herr Kisch Is? (Eduard Schreiber, 1985)
- Slatan Dudow: A Film Essay about a Marxist Artist (Volker Koepp, 1974)
- Traces (Eduard Schreiber, 1989)
- Walter Ballhause: One Among Millions (Karlheinz Mund, 1982)
Special features:
- Turn Subtitles On/Off
- Biographies and Filmographies
- “Exile: Nine Variations on a Theme,” by Seán Allan, Univ. of Warwick
- “Painting with a Lens: Artists’ Film Portraits,” written 2015 interview with director Eduard Schreiber
- “Erich Fried: Father or Brother?,” by director Roland Steiner (2015)