Fwd: Cold War internationally

From: Powell, Larson <[email protected]>

>   . . . *The Lives of Others*, a truly powerful look back by the germans.
Second would be *Goodbye Lenin,
> *  which is also very fine.

Please note that those two films -- *Lives* and *Goodbye* -- were made AFTER
the end of the Cold War, and show very much of a victor's (Western)
perspective on it.  They thus tend to repackage Cold War history in the
language
of mainstream cinema (good/bad, love stories, melodrama, etc.).

If you want something less commercial than those films, there are lots of
interesting East German (DEFA) films you could include.
Try "Divided Heaven" by Konrad Wolf, which is about the effects of the
Berlin Wall on divided Germany.
Not to mention many wonderful Polish, Czech and Yugoslav films.

Dr. Larson Powell
Associate Professor of German
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Scofield Hall 206A
University of Missouri ­ Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
[email protected]

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