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August 24, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

East German films screened at Dryden Theatre in September

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House presents a series of four East German films on Thursdays in September - films that are unknown to most film enthusiasts around the world. Between 1946 and 1992, the East German State-owned DEFA studios produced more than 7,500 films. The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institute New York and the DEFA film library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, mounted in 2005 the most comprehensive retrospective of East German cinema ever in the United States. The films of the Dryden Theatre series are among the best films from that retrospective.

The Dryden series begins on Thursday, Sept. 7 with Berlin: Schönhauser Corner, a German Democratic Republic (GDR) teen classic from the '50s and a sort-of East German Rebel Without a Cause. Directed by Gerhard Klein, it's a perceptive social portrayal of a city in which political and economic division have affected the entire population.

During the years of their production, most DEFA films were rarely shown outside the communist world, and several were banned altogether, including Kurt Maetzig's The Rabbit Is Me, screening on Thursday, Sept. 14. Maetzig's story of a politically charged love affair was the first of a group of films made in 1965, each of which was subsequently banned and which collectively became known as the "Rabbit Films." Rounding out the series are Egon Günther's sweetly comic and feminist Her Third, screening Thursday, Sept. 21, and the longest-playing film in East German history, Heiner Carow's psychedelic The Legend of Paul and Paula, screening Thursday, Sept. 28.

These selections from the nearly 50-year history of East German cinema were chosen for their creativity and their challenge to authority and the status quo. Each film represents a unique artistic voice and suggests something beyond the stereotypical and frequently untrue images of GDR life often held not just by non-privileged outsiders, but also by the East German State.

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