Essay aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: At the end of World War II Germany's cities were in ruins, its people shattered by 6 years of "Total War" and vilified as guilty monsters around the world. Curt Reiss, returned German emigre and American War Correspondent, described the streets of 1945 Berlin as "endless ruins, ...]bombed out tanks, the ubiquitous machine guns and helmets shot to pieces." This fantastic landscape and guilty citizens fascinated filmmakers. They produced films which tried to depict the implications...

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: "Merit," University of Reading (German Studies), course: MA (Res), language: English, abstract: This dissertation examines two DEFA films produced in the 1960's by Joachim Kunert and Konrad Wolf, who became part of East Germany's 2nd generation of filmmakers and who explored the causes of National Socialism and the remedies for the dreadful catastrophe that overcame Germany between 1933 and 1945. The collapse of the Reich in 1945 saw the end of the 12 year National Socialist reign of terror over...