EAST GERMANY – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films

DIE LEGENDE VON PAUL UND PAULA (1973)

Jon W. — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:38:54 +0000

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they’re together – but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul’s ties to family and career.

Director: Heiner Carow. AKA The Legend of Paul and Paula
Writers: Heiner Carow, Anne Pfeuffer (dramatisation), Ulrich Plenzdorf (scenario).
Stars: Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder, Heidemarie Wenzel, Fred Delmare, Rolf Ludwig, Käthe Reichel, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Frank-Otto Schenk, Dietmar Richter-Reinick, Eva-Maria Hagen Jürgen Frohriep, Christian Steyer, Willi Schrade, Peter Gotthardt, Marga Legal, Brigitte Beier, Edgar Külow, Frank Michelis, Elvira Schuster, Dieter Birr, Robert Glatzeder, Victor Keune, Bodo Krämer, David Wenzel-Veth, Irina Suess, Robert Ströhl, Mike Zessin, Wilfried Wolter, Detlef Willecke, Hans Merker, Jessy Rameik, Bernd Manthey, Manfred Rosenberg, Brigitte Kaukel, Ruth Harter, Constanze Engelhardt, Hertha Thiele.
Cinematographer: Jürgen Brauer.
Composer: Peter Gotthardt.

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JAGDPARTIE (1964)

Jon W. — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:45:15 +0000

Ibrahim Shaddad’s graduation film Jagdpartie, which he shot at the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst Potsdam-Babelsberg, is a treatise on racism. Shot in a forest in Brandenburg, it uses the Western genre to portray a black farm worker pursued by a mob of white men. The film dramatizes working-class solidarity across the color line, signally achieved through shared labor, but culminates in the violent foreclosure of this common horizon.

Director: Ibrahim Shaddad. AKA Hunting Party
Writers: Claus Neumann, Ibrahim Shaddad.
Stars: Petra Hinze, Günter Meier, Ambroise Ruzidana, Heinz Schröder.
Cinematographer: Claus Neumann.
Composer: Gerhard Rosenfeld.

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PETER UND DER WOLF (1973)

Jon W. — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:27:26 +0000

This puppet animation film is based on Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. A 1936 symphonic fairy tale for children, the piece tells the story of Peter and a little bird who outwit and catch the dangerous wolf and take him to a zoo.

Each character in the tale is represented by a corresponding instrument in the orchestra, helping children learn to distinguish the sonorities of each instrument. Prokofiev’s piece was a staple of music education in East German elementary schools.

Director: Günter Rätz.
Writer: Günter Rätz.
Cinematographer: Rolf Hofmann.
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev.
Animation: Günter Rätz.

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DIE ENTDECKUNG (1984)

Jon W. — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 09:41:37 +0000

A little bumblebee is tired of her daily routine and the other boring bumblebees. She needs an adventure! She flies to the place of her dreams and meets a frog who is also seeking something new. Despite their differences, the two animals become friends and start their adventure together.

Director: Lutz Dammbeck. AKA The Discovery.
Writer: Lutz Dammbeck.
Stars: Gudrun Okras (narrator).
Composer: Thomas Hertel.
Animation: Lutz Dammbeck, Ingrid Gubisch.

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DER MANN MIT DEM OBJEKTIV (1961)

Jon W. — Sun, 15 May 2022 13:20:34 +0000

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the “Beautiful future” professed by VEB (“Volkseigener Betrieb” – “State Owned Holdings”).

Director: Frank Vogel. AKA The Man with the Lens.
Writer: Paul Wiens.
Stars: Rolf Ludwig, Christine Laszar, Helga Labudda, Micaela Kreißler, Otto Stark, Erik S. Klein, Erich Franz.

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KOMMANDO 52 (1965)

Jon W. — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:53:07 +0000

The film deals with the infamous “Kommando 52”, which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men. Among them is the former Wehrmacht officer Siegfried Müller. Based on personal accounts and original material – backed by tape recordings of interviewed mercenaries and photos of murdered Africans – it creates a hard hitting historical document.

Directors: Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann.

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O.K. (1964)

Jon W. — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 08:13:15 +0000

Amos Vogel’s “Film as a Subversive Art”

In a Refugee Reception Center for migrants in Eisenach, the director gets to know 21-year-old Doris S., who moved to West Germany and returned. When her mother died in 1961, Doris went live with her father. Driven by her desire to see the world, she ended up working as a hostess at the “Pa-pa-Club” at an American army training ground in Baumholder. This film interview tells the story of one person’s fate in a divided Germany.

Director: Walter Heynowski.
Writers: Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann.

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LEBE! (1978)

Jon W. — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 07:33:06 +0000

This short film traces the story of a man from birth to old age. The magical dreams of his youth sometimes appear, but daily routine quickly takes over. His striving for material wealth leads him to betray his youthful ideals.

Director: Lutz Dammbeck.
Writer: Lutz Dammbeck.