Friday | February 17, 2006 7:00 pm

The Architects
( Die Architekten)

Screening on Film

Directed by Peter Kahane.
With Kurt Naumann, Rita Feldmeier, Uta Eisold.
East Germany, 1990, 35mm, color, 105 min.
German with English subtitles.

Filmed as the GDR crumbled, this somber, finely-drawn portrait of life in East Berlin depicts a young architect whose life and goals are strangled by communist dogma, represented in part by the older generation. This was one of the first fiction films to deal with both the GDR and reunification periods.

PRECEDED BY

The Monument ( Das Monument)

Directed by Klaus Georgi and Lutz Stützner.
East Germany, 1989, 35mm, color, 4 min.

In this animated piece, a statue with outstretched arms is unveiled to thunderous applause. Then one day it turns around to point the other way.

February 10 – 21, 2006

Rebels With A Cause: The Cinema of East Germany

January 17–February 28

From the Collection: Antonioni / Bertolucci / Olmi

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 13–23

Alain Kassanda, 2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

February 20

Growing Up Female, Second-Wave

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

March 13–21

The Lady and the Typewriter

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins