Last Features - East German Cinema's Lost Generation

Drawing on archival research and interviews with directors, writers, and editors, Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German unification.

List of contents

Introduction
On Fools and Clowns or Refusal as Engagement in Two Final DEFA Films: Egon Günther's Stein and Jörg Foth's Letztes aus der DaDaeR
"Film Must Fidget": DEFA's Untimely Poets
Absurd Endgames: Peter Welz's Banale Tage
Flight into Reality: The Cinema of Helke Misselwitz
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Andreas Voigt's Leipzig Pentalogy, 1986-96
Asynchronicity in DEFA's Last Feature: Architects, Goats, and Godot
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Reinhild Steingröver

Product details

• Authors: Reinhild Steingreover, Reinhild Steingröver
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2014
• EAN: 9781571135551
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-555-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 583 g
• Series: Screen Cultures: German Film a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet