DEFA

"This volume traces the development of the state-sponsored Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), which was primarily responsible for film production in the former GDR starting in 1946, ceasing to exist in 1992. Although largely ignored outside the former GDR, DEFA produced a number of excellent films and scriptwriters that are examined here for the first time. This volume analyzes the representation of fascism and anti-fascism in the cinema of the 1940s and 1950s, the conflicts between the state and the film-makers of the 1960s, and the social-political criticism in the 1970s and early…