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- Sweep It Up. by Kroske, Gerd,film director.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1990.The city of Leipzig made headlines with its peaceful Monday Demonstrations before the collapse of the Berlin Wall in the fall of 1989. The uproar at that time was replaced by the hectic electoral campaign in the spring of 1990. Nightly conversations with three street sweepers, Gabi, Henry and Stefan, whose life took place between children’s homes and prison, are dominated by hopelessness and broken self-confidence, but one can also feel a keen sense for the changes in the social and political climates in East Germany. Part 1 of the long observation project known as the Sweep It Up trilogy.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; History, Modern.; German language.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; History.;
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- Farewell, Beautiful Forest… or How a Film Was Censored. by Lippmann, Günter,film director.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1990.An ecological catastrophe in the Ore Mountains on the Czech German border: Foresters and residents desperately try to save this landscape from forest devastation. But they face a doctrinaire state power that turns a blind eye and denies the facts.After the filmmaker’s initial proposal in 1983, permission to film was finally granted in 1987 and the crew shot in the Czech border region of Most and Teplice in 1988. But “forest dieback” was a forbidden word in East Germany. Consequently, none of the film’s eight versions passed censorship and the project was banned. Finally, in 1989/90, after the political changes in East Germany, the original version of the film was reconstructed, and the story about its censorship was included into the film.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Science.; Motion pictures.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; Environmental sciences.; History, Modern.; Social sciences.; German language.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Current affairs.; History.; Motion pictures--Germany.; Deforestation.; Climatic changes.; Ecology.; Motion pictures--History.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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- Drawing a Line. by Kroske, Gerd,film director.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 2015.1986, West Berlin. Five resettled members of the Weimar underground punk scene in East Germany plan an exceptional art project that they call White Line. They will paint a white line that encircles the west side of the Berlin Wall as a political statement to the normalization of the existence of the Wall in the West. While the concrete Wall remained gray and austere on the east side, the west side had been colorfully painted by artists, turning it into a tourist attraction. The five artists believe that this obscures the meaning of the Wall as a deadly and dangerous border that divides a city and a country. The documentary tries to reconstruct this unusual art project that was interrupted by East German border guards who took one of the artists through an almost invisible Wall door to the East where he was imprisoned. The artists hadn’t considered that the actual border ran about 9-13 ft on East German territory, placing the “west side” of the Wall on GDR soil. But how did the East German guards know about their project? Almost three decades later, the artists find out that one of them was a state security informant.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Art.; Arts.; Social sciences.; History, Modern.; German language.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Artists.; History.;
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- The Empty Grave. by Lisa Wegner, Agnes,film director.; Mlay, Cece,film director.; Rushlake Media (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Rushlake Media in 2024.THE EMPTY GRAVE follows the emotional journey of two Tanzanian families in search of their stolen ancestors. Their quest leads them to Germany where tens of thousands of human remains from former German colonies are stored in museum depots - a haunting legacy of colonial plunder in the early 20th century, taken for racist research and as macabre trophies.Set in the present, the film unveils the enduring traces and traumas inflicted by colonial crimes on families and communities. It navigates the obscure maze of German and Tanzanian bureaucracy, revealing the struggle to reckon with this painful history. While the issue has gained political attention, the film shifts perspectives and highlights the resilience of the families while probing the complexity of identifying an repatriating these human remains.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; African studies.; Foreign study.; Balts (Indo-European people).; History, Modern.; Human rights.; German language.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; History.; Death.; Families.; Africa.; Racism.; Slavery.; Funeral rites and ceremonies.; Germany.;
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