The DEFA-Stiftung presents

Together with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, the DEFA-Stiftung continues the film series "Breaks and Continuities," dedicated to nine director who worked for the UFA before 1945 and for the DEFA after 1945. In January two films by the director Wolfgang Staudte will be screened. In DER MANN, DEM MAN DEN NAMEN STAHL (GER 1945), life is made difficult for Fridolin Biedermann at his wedding because a marriage swindler stole his identity. The parody of the bureaucratic apparatus was banned by the censorship authorities before its official release and was deemed lost for a long time. In the first German post-war movie, DIE MÖRDER SIND UNTER UNS (The Murderers Are Among Us, Soviet Occupied Zone/GDR 1946), Staudte raises the question of guilt in face of the mass murders of the war, personal responsibility and compensation. (Jan. 3)