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Written and directed by maja classen, dont forget to go home is a 2006 documentary about the electronic music scene in berlin. Based on an actual escape from east to west germany staged on january 28, 1962, this routine docudrama by director robert siodmak reenacts the tale. The state owned east german film company defa produced about 800 feature. The construction of the wall in august 1961 embodied the division of germany. A cult film, it tells the story of a teacher living in east berlin who embarks upon a. The 18 best films set in berlin taste of cinema movie.

Robert siodmaks 1962 film, released on dvd by warner archive, depicts the derringdo of 29 east germans who tunneled under the berlin wall a. It was published in english for foreign distribution. The system of walls, electrified fences, and fortifications extended 28 miles through berlin and extended a further 75 miles around west berlin. The film consists of interviews from berlins electronic dance music scene, mainly that of house, techno, and their minimal subcultures, woven together to create narratives around music, drugs, love, addiction, friendship, and sexuality. After the death of stalin, the picture not without reason was reproached for the. The epix original series berlin station, a contemporary spy series consisting of 10 onehour episodes, follows daniel miller, richard armitage, who has just arrived at the cia station in berlin. Five films that shaped the gdrs legacy and what east germans. How a groundbreaking east german film coincided with history. Thus wellassured that no guards will be able to see him escaping, kurt carefully implements his plan. In january of 1962, 29 east berliners escaped to west berlin via a tunnel they had dug beneath the berlin wall, led by erwin becker, a chauffeur in the car pool of the east germany parliament, who served as technical adviser on this film.

East of berlin 1978, brigitte parmentier drama movie. The following is the text of a 1962 brochure from the gdr defending indeed, boasting of the berlin wall. At hessen antique, we are pleased to provide every customer with a collection he or she can get lost in, one that will take you back into history and give you the militaria items that you will love. Along with the rest of umass amherst, the defa film library is closing in an effort to flatten the curve. Pierre chevalier dramathrillermovie france 1978 cast. After east berlin chauffer kurt schroder don murray decides to escape to west germany, he begins a plan to dig a tunnel under the berlin wall. Part of our huge collection of historic berlin film. These german films are so good, not even the cabinet of dr. The wall divided the city of berlin into an eastern zone, which became the capital of the gdr, and a western zone, which was governed by the three western allies and was also a state of the federal republic of.

She is on location in east berlin, and he works at a theatre in west berlin. One of our best collections is our east german army surplus and militaria. Most popular east berlin east germany movies and tv shows imdb. The document is not clearly dated, but i think it was published in february. In 1962, a group of east berliners escapes to west berlin through a tunnel dug from the basement of a house located near the berlin wall. Escape from east berlin tunnel 28 photos view all photos 1 movie info. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures. Sydneysbuzz the blog sydneysbuzz focuses on international film industry developments and analyzes the international film market as it relate to buyers, sales agents, filmmakers, film festivals and distribution. East side gallery, berlin, complete panorama photo c steffen freiling photography, 20. A historian believes that a complete series of bombs was placed there by a nazi special force to destroy berlin at the end of world war ii and that. Hungarian drama on body and soul has picked up the golden bear for best film at the 67th berlin film festival.

The film opens with karl schroeder don murray, chauffeur to an east german major. Berlin has been the backdrop and even the star in movies from cold war spy thrillers to dramas about the collapse of east germany. It is a tightly constructed and suspenseful tale of the attempt of a family living close to the wall to tunnel beneath it to freedom. After escaping from a nazi prison camp, martin richter helmut dantine, a captured member of the german resistance, poses as a waiter and hides among the guests at the hotel berlin. The first and likewise last east german film dealing sympathetically with the topic of homosexuality. But hes not a robot in this very poetic and touching film that really grants some insights into life behind the wall some of the locations in berlin are authentic and can be visited. Just off the schiffbauerdamm, a street that runs along the river spree on the north side of the river, sits the berliner ensemble theater. The first film in the ddr to focus on lgbt issues, this is a turning point in the east german film movement. East germany, 1989, 120 minutes, color, germanenglish. The first defector to escape across the berlin wall was 19yearold east german border guard corporal conrad schumann, who was immortalized on film as he leapt over a 3foothigh roll of barbed. In fact, as berlin films go, m is a harsh indictment of the berlin and germany of the early thirties.

Excellent movies about berlin the jewish berlin heritage. Indigo lush makes smart, feminist erotic films for women, for men, for everyone. Has for the seven disc it brings the documentary of the making a comment on the end and the original 1931 berlin alexanderplatz film of one hour and thirty minutes. Whilst the film shows the secrecy and context within the ddr, the social and cultural worlds of the postddr city were very different. The museum of the city of new york is temporarily closed. Browse a selection that includes original issue east german uniforms. Berlin is a major center in the european and german film industry. On this page youll find a selection of berlin films, berlin movies and berlin documentaries meaning films, movies and documentaries, that are in one way or the other related to berlin.

Brigitte parmentier, jeanmarie lemaire, henri lambert akas. Nearing the 30 year anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, we explore how five films compare to the real east germany and how east. But in recent years many other movies discovered that berlin is the perfect setting for other kind of stories as well so before you move to berlin make sure to check out some of the movies on our list in order to get a felling for berlin. The berlin wall dictated the daytoday lives of berliners for almost three decades. This is a list, in year order, of the most notable films produced in the soviet occupation zone of germany and the socialist german democratic republic gdr, east germany from 1945 until german reunification in october 1990. Unusually, the film doesnt have a clear moral centre. In videospace database release is a distribution of movie, tv series or documentary etc. The founders fund, established in honor of retired founding director barton byg, aims to support the work of student researchers interested in east german cinema and defa film library collections. Vhs and beta tapes, optical dvd, bluray, uhd and laserdisc discs. In germany, nudism is known as freikoerperkultur fkk, free body culture.

Leyda worked at the staatliches filmarchiv in east berlin and at the british film institute, and taught at yale university and at york university in toronto during the. The love story, which is set in a slaughterhouse in budapest, is wr. Germanborn director robert siodmak was back in his native country for escape from east berlin 1962, based on a true story about a group of east germans who escape communist rule by tunneling under the berlin wall. Escape from east berlin, 1962 drama about a group of people from east berlin who dig a tunnel under berlin wall to take refuge in west berlin.

Depicting sex and sexuality in a more holistic way without porn cliches. The groundbreaking german film that premiered as the berlin wall. Rudi stands outside his fathers study in paraguay for the first time in seven years. Gerd wiesler is an agent of eastgermany the gdrs state security service the notorious staatssicherheit, a. In a somewhat expressionistic style, lang depicts berlin as a dark, filthy, greasy slum.

Goodbye, lenin preceded the lives of others as an important revisiting of berlins fraught eastwest tensions. Martin rauch is recruited by the hva to infiltrate the west germany army. Whenever you watched a movie about the cold war you could be sure that at least one scene was set in berlin. Jay leyda, film historian, writer and a student of sergei. The text of a 1962 east german defense of the berlin wall. The protagonists are a study in contrasts that are grounded in unfortunate ethnic and class stereotypes. Berlin 1941 berlin during wwii private footage youtube. The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in berlin germany ordered by relevance.

The films sets were designed by the art director dieter bartels and ted haworth. Escape from east berlin is a 1962 americanwest german thriller film directed by robert siodmak and starring don murray, christine kaufmann and werner klemperer. When an elderly supporter of the communist regime sees her son, alex, being beaten on television, she lapses into a coma. The following day, celebrating germans began to tear the wall down. The 18 best films set in berlin page 2 taste of cinema.

The son of an engineer and a komsomol member, ogarkov is a tall, handsome, blonde, and articulate russian, while his opposite. Picture show at berlin movie times showtimes and tickets. When you travel there, youll see that baring all is normal in saunas, swimming pools, the park and on the beach. After a long absence, hes been compelled to return to his familys home. The road to berlin is a comrades film that resorts to the hoary trope of mismatched buddies on a trek. Distribution, which is done with a physical or digital dowload. The story of the 29 escapees, led by erwin becker, a chauffeur in the car pool of the east german parliament and technical adviser on this film, was still very. Premiering in east berlin on 9 november 1989, the night that the berlin wall fell.

East germany opens the berlin wall east german officials today opened the berlin wall, allowing travel from east to west berlin. A doctor in 1980s east berlin is exiled to a rural east german hospital after applying for an exit visa to move to west germany. Escape from east berlin, reissued five decades later the new. Berlin film festival 2017 winners full list deadline. With jonas nay, maria schrader, ulrich noethen, sylvester groth. Despite being made so soon after the construction of the berlin wall, escape from east berlin is no exploitation movie.

Escape from east berlin tunnel 28 1962 rotten tomatoes. A cult film, it tells the story of a teacher living in east berlin who embarks upon a secret affair with a young man. Germany, 1999, 98 minutes, color, germanenglish subtitles. During his lengthy career, siodmak tackled almost every genre, including monster films son of dracula, crime films the killers, postwar social noir criss cross, buddy comedies the crimson pirate, and german princess melodramas katia, but escape from east berlin was a very different animal. Either the movies are set in berlin, are about berlin or somehow deal with the story and history of the city of berlin andor germany.

Her most beautiful day ihr schonster tag, 1962 a typical feisty female concierge in berlin has to learn that her own children do not prosper as desired. Kurt schroeder is a chauffeur, the young east berliner who gets the idea of digging a tunnel underneath the berlin wall. Berlin films, berlin movies, berlin documentaries nuberlin. Well refund your credit card or we can credit your fandango account to use for another movie. Robert siodmaks 1962 film, released on dvd by warner archive, depicts the derringdo of 29 east germans who tunneled under the berlin. Escape from east berlin, reissued five decades later. A cult film, created in the traditions of stalins mythmaking, about the key events of the great patriotic war. In 1978, an east german couple, traveling with their child, used a toy guy to hijack an airliner to a u. Fassinbender the direvtor had more time to produce the full story line unlike the 1931 film which tends to be shorter. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, tense, exciting, disturbing, suspense and suspenseful films and tv shows about with german, danger, violence, storytelling, flashback, friendship, mentor, death, spy and murder plots mostly in drama, thriller and action. Two fullscale submarine models were created for the interior and. Youll have to complete your refund and exchange before the posted showtime indicated on your ticket. In this drama, based on a true story, a courageous east berliner digs a tunnel beneath the berlin wall and leads 27. History of the berlin wall and its fall visualized with.