Why do stories about resisting the Nazis seem so important right now? Here are two discs from different labels, with one subject. Both stories are set in Germany during the war, but the approaches are quite different. A political prisoner struggles to subsist in The Fiancée an East German classic from the part-educational Defa Film Library. The recent The Invisibles from the reunited Germany chronicles the true story of four Jewish Berliners, who went underground and hid right through the war.
The Fiancée
DVD
Defa Film Library
1980 / Color / 1:37 flat full frame / 106 min. / 2019 / Die Verlobte / available through Defa Film Libary / institutional access.
Starring: Jutta Wachowiak, Regimantas Adomaitis, Slávka Budínová, Christine Gloger, Inge Keller, Käthe Reichel, Hans-Joachim Hegewald, Barbara Zinn.
Cinematography: Jürgen Brauer
Film Editor: Erika Lehmphul
Original Music: Karl-Ernst Sasse
Written by Günter Reisch, Günther Rücker, from books by Eva Lippold
Production Manager: Hans-Erich Busch
Directed by Günter Reisch, Günther...
The Fiancée
DVD
Defa Film Library
1980 / Color / 1:37 flat full frame / 106 min. / 2019 / Die Verlobte / available through Defa Film Libary / institutional access.
Starring: Jutta Wachowiak, Regimantas Adomaitis, Slávka Budínová, Christine Gloger, Inge Keller, Käthe Reichel, Hans-Joachim Hegewald, Barbara Zinn.
Cinematography: Jürgen Brauer
Film Editor: Erika Lehmphul
Original Music: Karl-Ernst Sasse
Written by Günter Reisch, Günther Rücker, from books by Eva Lippold
Production Manager: Hans-Erich Busch
Directed by Günter Reisch, Günther...
- 3/23/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Another offering of vintage East German pictures gives us all the pieces of a cinematic puzzle: Heiner Carow’s 1968 memory- movie of traumatic experiences in WW2 displeased the Communist authorities and was shelved… only to be cannibalized as a back-story for a new 1970 release aimed as a dig at West German values. It’s a fascinating comparison — an ideologically-challenged art film becomes a piece of well-produced propaganda.
The Russians Are Coming & Career
DVD
Defa Film Library
B&W / 2:35 widescreen / Street Date April, 2017 / available through Defa Film Library /
Cinematography: Jürgen Brauer
Film Editor: Evelyn Carow
Original Music: Peter Gotthardt, Dietrich Kittner
Written by Heiner Carow, Herman Herlinghaus, Claus Küchenmeister inspired by the short story Die Anzeige by Egon Richter
Produced by Defa
Directed by Heiner Carow
Defa, or Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft was the film producing arm of the former Communist East German regime, that ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Russians Are Coming & Career
DVD
Defa Film Library
B&W / 2:35 widescreen / Street Date April, 2017 / available through Defa Film Library /
Cinematography: Jürgen Brauer
Film Editor: Evelyn Carow
Original Music: Peter Gotthardt, Dietrich Kittner
Written by Heiner Carow, Herman Herlinghaus, Claus Küchenmeister inspired by the short story Die Anzeige by Egon Richter
Produced by Defa
Directed by Heiner Carow
Defa, or Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft was the film producing arm of the former Communist East German regime, that ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- 4/4/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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