Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

ARTS in EXILE (Kunst im Exil )

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ARTS in EXILE (Kunst im Exil )

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Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1988

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Presented here are nine short films that feature: film director Slatan Dudow; actor Martin Brandt; authors Erich Fried, Erich Weinert, and Arnold Zweig; photographer Walter Ballhause; cartoonist Leo Haas; and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch.. Original interviews with the artists, close family members, and friends are combined with little-known historic film material. 2East German documentaries often portrayed leftist and liberal artists who were forced into exile by the Nazis. This topic corresponded to the GDR{u2019}s official antifascist film policies. The production of these films also depended on current propaganda demands: the life of emigres was shown through the lens of contemporary official politics at the time. This explains reductions, omissions, or condensations in the artists{u2019} portraits. The films offer, beyond their actual topic, a fascinating temporal journey into East German history.3{u2014}Ralf Schenk, Chairman, DEFA Foundation, Berlin. TITLES: Arnold Zweig (Joop Huisken, 1962), Erich Fried: The Whole World Should Endure (Roland Steiner, 1988) Even Today He'd Speak His Mind (Volker Koepp, 1975) Leo Haas: Artist and Witness of His Times (Jorg d'Bomba, 1971) Malik (Giovanni Angella, 1967) Do You Know Where Herr Kisch Is? (Eduard Schreiber, 1985) Slatan Dudow: A Film Essay about a Marxist Artist (Volker Koepp, 1974) Traces (Eduard Schreiber, 1989) Walter Ballhause: One Among Millions (Karlheinz Mund, 1982)

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