Sunday | February 12, 2006 7:00 pm

The Gleiwitz Case
(Der Fall Gleiwitz)

Screening on Film

Directed by Gerhard Klein.
East Germany, 1961, 35mm, black & white, 69 min.
German with English subtitles.

Considered one of the most modern and experimental films in DEFA's the eccentric Gleiwitz Case is a detailed reconstruction of the 1939 surprise attack by a Nazi unit on the radio station at Gleiwitz, a German town on the Polish border. Theattack, blamed on Polish forces, served as Hitler's justification for marching into Poland, thus starting WWII.

February 10 – 21, 2006

Rebels With A Cause: The Cinema of East Germany

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins

April 9

The Dutchman by André Gaines

April 11–25

Tarr / Krasznahorkai

May 4–10

Little Fugitive

May 8–11

The Spring is Over (Prague 1970)