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To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren't human-that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast-elderly people, children, babies-now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn't know when or...
3) Love Letters
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Director Uwe Belz focuses his attention on viewing Karl Marx from an alternative perspective, showing the emotional and romantic sides of the historical figure. Passages from LOVE LETTERS that Marx and his fiancée, Jenny von Westphalen, exchanged as teenagers blend with paintings and beautifully atmospheric photographs of places connected to Marx. The letters and poems are read by well-known East German actors, such as Jenny Gröllmann and Dieter...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Use the appeal characteristics to help your patrons find the book that is most appropriate for them. You will also learn how to use the "Quick Dip" in order to learn about a book without reading it. “People love to talk about the books that they read,” according to this excellent readers - advisory instructional. Recommended for professional library collections.”- Booklist.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Charlotte Kestner (played by Lilli Palmer) was the love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s youth, who became famous as Lotte in his renowned epistolary novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774. After four decades, in late summer 1816, Charlotte travels to Weimar to see Goethe again. The posturing of high society she finds there and her disappointing encounter with her former love lead her to an unexpected conclusion: she no longer loves...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Sonya, an art student, loves the med student Dieter. And Siegi, a factory worker, loves the bricklayer Eddie. At a lavish Carnival party at East Berlin’s art school an unintentional exchange of partners begins. When everyone takes off their masks, Dieter realizes that he did not spend the evening with Sonya, but with Siegi! Director Slatan Dudow, a collaborator of Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler, was a celebrated DEFA director, yet East German officials...
7) Just Married
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Susanne (17) and Robert (18) want to get married, butbecause Susanne is still under-aged, she needs parental permission. With twin babies and tight finances, the newlyweds soon feel overwhelmed, and dealing with everything makes them forget the love that originally brought them together. In this sequel to his box-office hit Seven Freckles (1978), director Zschoche skillfully captures the life and problems of young East Germans in the late 1980s.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The (East) German film collection is presented by the DEFA film library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The DEFA film library is the only archive and research center outside Europe devoted to the study of a broad spectrum of filmmaking from or related to East Germany from 1946 to the present. Its film series have been featured at venues throughout North America and elsewhere in the world. The DEFA film library has access to over 7500 films...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. But Ines’s narrow-minded parents intervene and insist that the young couple joins the family vacation. Problems arise, so everyoneends up traveling to the Bulgarian Black Sea on their own. Along the way, Jonas meets a beautiful Dutch girl who is going to India via Turkey… Director Herrmann Zschoche’s road movie is a humorous look at East German...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This comedic musical tells the story of Gabi, a young hairdresser from the Baltic coast who desperately wants to be a jockey. One day, she packs her bags, drives to Hoppegarten, and is soundly rejected by the head coach. Gabi doesn't want to give up, and in order to at least have a roof over her head, she rushes into a marriage with the seemingly nice Freddie. However, this marriage soon proves to be her second rejection, as Freddie openly dislikes...
11) Our Short Life
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
The fun-loving, 26-year-old architect Franziska Linkerhand works for a famous professor. Yet, she feels restrained by her dependence on him and longs to take risks. When her marriage falls apart, she moves to a small town for a fresh start. Franziska approaches her new life with vigor and idealism. Many of her colleagues have given in to the dictates of economic restrictions and prefabricated apartment blocks; but Franziska hangs onto her ideals and,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Susanne is 18 years old. Everybody appreciates her work in the textile company; but nobody, including Lutz, whom she is in love with, takes note of her as a woman. She feels she must make a change. With popular rock music of the '70s, by Hungarian musician Zsuzsa Koncz and the Illes Ensemble, and the Klaus Renft Combo, which was banned by East German officials in 1975. dir. Berhard Stephan, GDR, color, Original title: Fur die Liebe noch zu mager
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf (Dieter Mann) and Horst (Kaspar Eichel) are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack of materials ... not to mention their love of leather jackets and motorbikes. Olaf and Horst begin to be targeted in the house newsletter, and the generational conflict escalates.. This film is the fourth in the Berlin Film Series by the Klein/Kohlhaase team. In 1966, officials...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This poetic, semi-autobiographical drama by Iris Gusner, one of East Germany’s few female directors, explores the strength and limits of will and desire. Gusner studied with Mikhail Romm at VGIK, the Russian Institute for Cinematography. Christiane arrives at a Moscow hospital to see her little daughter. While she waits for the child to recuperate, she reflects on her life. Remembering her childhood in East Germany, she thinks about her grandfather...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What stories do you tell about yourself? Your loved ones? Explore how CBT and the search for cognitive balance can inform and reshape our stories in constructive ways. Explore the practice of writing your own character sketch and the "library exercise" in which you curate your own library of stories. What would you like to change now that you have the CBT tools to do just that?
16) Sheriff Teddy
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Divided Berlin, 1950s: 13-year-old Kalle lives with his family in Wedding in the Western Sector of the city. He devours stories of the Wild West, even sporting a sheriff’s star on his jacket and declaring himself the leader of a local clique of boys who call themselves the “Teddy Gang.” But when Kalle's family moves to the Eastern Sector, his braggadocio and love of action stories make it difficult for him to fit in with his new classmates,...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A partly biographical, partly fictitious account of the final ten years (1937-1947) of the life of German author Hans Fallada. His craving for harmony collides with the circumstances of the times and his own inner turmoil. As Fallada falls into a deep depression, replacing his writing with drinking and pills, his wife Anna cares for him and even tolerates her husband’s aggression and infidelity. She leaves, however, when Fallada falls in love with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Much more than a study of Edna Hibel's work, this documentary presents a personal perspective of this "lady of the fine arts," including candid interviews with the artist and memorable reflections by family and friends. In this context we see how Edna's life experiences influenced her art and artistry, and discover that beyond her personal success has been a continued effort to reach out to charitable causes to help promote the universal message of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domrose) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) know about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. By the director Heiner Carow (Coming Out, The Legend of Paul and Paula), this film is part...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The engineer Linda falls in love with not with one, but two of the men on her construction team, in a film that raises questions about the importance of work, love and happiness in socialist East Germany of the 1970s. When Iris Gusner, one of very few East German female directors, previewed the rough-cut of her debut film, she was accused of presenting an "unrealistic picture of life," and officials banned the film. It did not become widely available...
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