Videocrux - The Berlin Film Festival celebrates the fall of Berlin Wall.

#Videocrux - The Berlin Film Festival celebrates the fall of Berlin Wall. The Berlin Film Festival celebrates the fall of Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Film Festival is devoting much attention to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall which will be marked in November. A series of films dating from the end of the Cold War era forms part of a special retrospective. Women telling the camera what life was really like in East Germany: undermining the official line of female emancipation. With its frank first-hand accounts of hopes and dreams, "Winter Ade" stretched cinematic boundaries in the authoritarian state. The film came out in 1988, just one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall in a time of growing discontent. Helke Misselwitz, Director of "Winter Ade", “There was an electric atmosphere – at a time when there was so much repression. But people were fed up and saw the film as a sort of release." Now, at the Berlin Festival, Director Helke Misselwitz is celebrated alongside other filmmakers who all played their role in changing the regime. Claus Loser, Film Historian, “It was the idea of the German Foundation for Culture to put this series of films together, to show them in German cinemas and to make in a compact form, a sort of experimental journey into the '80s. Also to try and get a sense of the atmosphere in the different countries at the time." "Winter Ade" was banned from broadcast at the time. But, today it is a record of artists who pushed the boundaries of expression during a defining moment in German history.
A series of films dating from the end of Cold war era.
The Berlin Film Festival is devoting much attention to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall which will be marked in November. A series of films dating from the end of the Cold War era forms part of a special retrospective. Women telling the camera what life was really like in East Germany: undermining the official line of female emancipation. With its frank first-hand accounts of hopes and dreams, "Winter Ade" stretched cinematic boundaries in the authoritarian state. The film came out in 1988, just one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall in a time of growing discontent. Helke Misselwitz, Director of "Winter Ade", “There was an electric atmosphere – at a time when there was so much repression. But people were fed up and saw the film as a sort of release." Now, at the Berlin Festival, Director Helke Misselwitz is celebrated alongside other filmmakers who all played their role in changing the regime
A short experimental journey into the 80's.
Claus Loser, Film Historian, “It was the idea of the German Foundation for Culture to put this series of films together, to show them in German cinemas and to make in a compact form, a sort of experimental journey into the '80s. Also to try and get a sense of the atmosphere in the different countries at the time." "Winter Ade" was banned from broadcast at the time. But, today it is a record of artists who pushed the boundaries of expression during a defining moment in German history.

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