ITFS Animation Special in November
The Fall of the Berlin Wall – Stories from the GDR
6 shortfilms | 72 min | no age restrictions | OV with english subtitles
In 1989 the fall of the Berlin Wall initiated the end of the DDR. With six animated films which some of are based on true stories, we want to remind everyone about the most important day of German history.
The films tell stories about life in the GDR, which was different from life in West-Germany in many ways. They show the need of the people for personal and political freedom and the repressions which destroyed or killed especially young people. The films also tell stories about the beautiful as well as the absurd moments. Join us on our timetravel to a land which no more exists.
Monday, 25 November, 6:45 pm
Cinema (Innenstadtkinos Stuttgart, Königstr. 22)
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ANYU – ODER WIE STALIN SEINE NASE VERLOR
(ANYU – OR HOW STALIN LOST HIS NOSE)
Director: Lina Walde | 8 min | Germany 2016
An animated film about Budapest in 1956, about a mother’s escape and about a daughter who grows up with a goose. The film is inspired by interviews with contemporary witnesses. Documentary and narrative find an experimental approach to illustrating memories.
HOTEL ASTORIA
Directors: Falk Schuster, Alina Cyranek | 28 min | Germany 2020
Leipzig, 1986: The Hotel Astoria is a magical place. Business people, prostitutes, the SED and ordinary people meet here. But lobster and caviar are not always available due to the shortage. And the Stasi? They keep a close eye on everything. The many truths from everyday socialist life in a luxury hotel.
CRISS CROSS
Directors: Caroline Hamann, Fritz Penzlin | 8 min | Germany 2020
CRISS CROSS is a movie about love and a border. Who is stronger? Through a chain of (un)fortunate coincidences, a pair of lovers must cross the border. Or should they rather tunnel under it? Bureaucracy and the past keep putting obstacles in their way – though only made of paper, but not without them.
MICKI
Directors: Izabela Plucinska, Alexander Lahl | 6 min | Germany 2014
Out of love, 18-year-old Marienetta, known as Micki, wants to flee East Germany by crossing the Berlin Wall. Her escape ends tragically less than two meters from her destination. A true story.
1989 – UNSERE HEIMAT, DAS SIND NICHT NUR DIE STÄDTE UND DÖRFER
(1989 – OUR HOME, THAT IS NOT JUST CITIES AND VILLAGES)
Director: Schwarwel | 14 min | Germany 2014
This animated film tells the semi-documentary story of the events and history of the “Peaceful Revolution” in the GDR, which reached its decisive turning point with the Monday demonstration in Leipzig on 9 October 1989, leading to the success of an all-encompassing change, the fall of the Wall on 9 November and finally the reunification of Germany in 1990.
BIEGEN & BRECHEN (MAKE OR BREAK)
Directors: Falk Schuster, Mike Plitt | 8 min | Germany 2022
Because his mother criticizes the GDR, 11-year-old Alex is sent to a home. He escapes from there several times – until he is sent to the notorious Closed Youth Work Yard in Torgau, Saxony, at the age of 14. Torgau was the ultimate punishment for non-conformist young people in the GDR, a state re-education prison.
Filmstill: Hotel Astoria (Copyright: hug films)