Dear IU, Bloomington, and regional fans of international cinema:
The DEFA DIALOGUES: 5 Film (Re)Discoveries
kick off on Sunday with:
#1
LOCKED UP TIME (Germany/GDR 1991, Dir. Sibylle Schönemann) this Sunday, November 14, at 3pm in the Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union @@@@@@@@@@@@
The New York Times called this film about the filmmaker's reckoning with the STASI, East Germany's secret police, who locked her up and expelled her to the West in the 1980s, "an eloquent film that shows what an abstraction like 'politics' did to one woman and her family."
Schönemann was, at the time, one of the very few female directors in the state-run studio system.
At times comical, at times bitter and moving, this fascinating documentary charts Schönemann's quest to overcome her past, the past of a nation that spied on its own citizens...
1991 German Film Award in Silver
1993 New York Film Festival
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Not shown in Bloomington in nearly 20 years, the film will be presented in 35mm and introduced by Helmut Morsbach, the direcor of the Berlin foundation charged with the critical preservation of East Germany's cinematic legacy! The film was re-released in Germany this year.
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# 2
CARBIDE AND SORREL (GDR 1963, Dir. Frank Beyer) on Monday, November 15, at 7pm in the Fine Arts Auditorium 015!
A classic (and rare comedy!) of East German cinema set in 1945!
Starring German acting legend Erwin Geschonneck (Mother Courage and Her Children, Naked Among Wolves, Jacob the Liar) as the nonsmoking worker Kalle, who sets off on an adventure through postwar Germany in search of carbide for a cigarette factory. A popular film in the 1960s, Carbide and Sorrel gave generations of GDR film enthusiasts a pleasurable departure from overt state propaganda. The film will be followed by a Q & A with DEFA 4th generation filmmaker Peter Kahane and RadioEins Berlin star and film journalist Knut Elstermann!!
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# 3
VORSPIEL [Foreplay/Acting/Prelude] (GDR 1987, Dir. Peter Kahane) on Tuesday, November 16, at 7pm in the Fine Arts Auditorium 015!
1980s' youth in the East German provinces. A touching and funny coming- of-age film that will celebrate it's *U.S. PREMIERE* here in Bloomington. The film will be followed by a Q & A with DEFA 4th generation filmmaker Peter Kahane and RadioEins Berlin star and film journalist Knut Elstermann!!
**Subtitled for the first time thanks to the request of Indiana High School Students!!
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IU News Room: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/15826.html
See you in the cinema!
Brigitta Wagner
2010 DEFA Project Director
Assistant Professor
Germanic Studies/Cinema
Communication and Culture/Film Studies
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Ballantine Hall 644
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
USA
E-mail: bbwagner@indiana.edu
