From Paul Verhoeven's "The Cold Heart" in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's "The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada" in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteenth-century folk and literary tales. While many of these films were popular successes and paved the way for the studio's other films to enter the global market, DEFA's fairy-tale corpus has not been studied in its entirety. In "The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films, " Qinna Shen fills...
From Paul Verhoeven's "The Cold Heart" in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's "The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada" in 1989, East Germa...
