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German Retro-Visions

This survey integrates classic works from German cinema with contemporary films that focus on dynamic interactions between film history and social history.

Past screenings from this program

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German Retro-Visions
Stars
Directed by Konrad Wolf, 1958
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German Retro-Visions
Lissy
Directed by Konrad Wolf, 1957
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973
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Lina Braake
Directed by Bernhard Sinkel, 1974
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Zero Hour
Directed by Edgar Reitz, 1976
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The Murderers are Among Us
Directed by Wolfgang Staudte, 1946
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The Glass Sky
Directed by Nina Grosse, 1987
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Dragon Chow
Directed by Jan Schütte, 1987
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Bye Bye America
Directed by Jan Schütte, 1993
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The Grass is Greener Everywhere Else
Directed by Michael Klier, 1989
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Sierra Leone
Directed by Uwe Schrader, 1987
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The Nasty Girl
Directed by Michael Verhoeven, 1989
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Europa, Europa
Directed by Agnieszka Holland, 1991
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Nobody Loves Me
Directed by Doris Dörrie, 1995
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Outside Time
Directed by Andreas Kleinert, 1995
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Silent Country
Directed by Andreas Dresen, 1992
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Lost Landscape
Directed by Andreas Kleinert, 1992
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Current and upcoming film series

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Psychedelic Cinema

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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

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António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

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sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

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The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

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From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

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a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

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a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

Wings of a Serf

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a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

Le Dépays + Sans soleil