Abschied von Gestern (Yesterday Girl)
With actors Hans Brammer and Ursula Dirichs Anita G. is a young East German woman who comes to West Germany in hopes of a better life. With no real home and no job, she gets into trouble with the law when she steals and is sent to prison. After her sentence, she has difficulty adjusting […]
Alles auf Zucker! (Go for Zucker)
With actors Henry Hübchen and Hannelore Elsner; available on DVD in Germany and U.S. Review by Jennifer Lau: Nothing brings an estranged family together like the death of a loved one and the subsequent promise of an inheritance. In Dani Levy’s 2004 comedy, Go for Zucker (Alles auf Zucker), two brothers are forced to overcome their animosity and reconcile […]
Points of Entanglement: The Overdetermination of German Space and Identity in Lola + Bilidikid and Walk on Water / by Nicholas Baer
Points of Entanglement: The Overdetermination of German Space and Identity in Lola + Bilidikid and Walk on Water Nicholas Baer Download PDF Abstract: In this essay, I consider how films have engaged with the politics of German space and identity in the context of the country’s National Socialist past – and, more specifically, in the […]