by bcblessing | Aug 5, 2014 | Benita Blessing, Education, Films, GDR, History
What would you do if a creepy man in a bar claimed that he had sold your guardian angel – but could get it back to you for a price? If you are Mick, the older of the two boys living on the street, you might be wise to this trickster “Landolfi” and...
by bcblessing | Apr 18, 2014 | Education, Films, GDR, Languages, Uncategorized
Few tales provide a better staging for a “good versus evil” post-socialist fairy tale film than Herwig Kipping’s 1991 Land Beyond the Rainbow. Set in an imaginary village, Stalina, in the days leading up to and after the GDR’s brutally repressed 17 June 1953 uprising,...
by bcblessing | Sep 12, 2013 | Benita Blessing, Education, Films, GDR, History, Uncategorized
What is it about youth on the verge of disaster that makes for such compelling films? The best part of them, of course, comes with the inevitable sacrifice of one of the young protagonists, preferably a suicide or murder that – although useless for the...
