With the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, some films to watch set in East Germany
Post date: Nov 11, 2014 11:5:3 AM
BARBARA (12A) 2012 GERMANY PETZOLD, CHRISTIAN £17.99
Set in East Germany in 1980, Barbara is sent to a new job in the provinces as punishment for applying for an exit visa from the GDR. Her aim now is to escape to the West.
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BEHIND THE WALL (E) 2011 KELLY, MICHAEL PATRICK £15.99
Documentary with real-life accounts that tell the story of the Berlin Wall and the people living on either side of it.
GOOD BYE LENIN! (15) 2002 GERMANY BECKER, WOLFGANG £19.99
One of the biggest German comedies in which an East German party loyalist comes out of an eight months coma during which time the Berlin Wall has comes down. Her children are convinced she will not cope with this change so he decide to tell her that Communism has triumphed over Capitalism and keep the pretence alive in their East Berlin flat.
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LEBEN DER ANDEREN/LIVES OF OTHERS (15) 2006 GERMANY H. VON DONNERSMARCK, F £19.99
Five years before the downfall of the GDR, party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend.
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GERMAN LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY RENE KOGLBAUER & SIMONE SCHROT
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DER TUNNEL (12) 2001 GERMANY RICHTER, ROLAND SUSO £15.99
Cold War thriller set in 1961. After fleeing the Communist regime in East Berlin, Harry Melchior is now determined to go back for his sister and her family.
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GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
In German with English subtitles