The DEFA-Stiftung presents

In April the DEFA-Stiftung will continue its monthly film series at Kino Arsenal with two films by Peter Pewas from the program "Breaks and Continuities." The series, conceived in cooperation with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung is dedicated to nine directors who worked for the UFA prior to 1945 and the DEFA after 1945. The gloomily poetic love film, DER VERZAUBERTE TAG (GER 1944), tells the story of the florists Christine and Anni, who are both longing for fulfilling love. After being repeatedly presented to the censorship in 1944, the film was not released until the end of the war and shown for the first time in 1951. In the film set in the ruins after the war, STRASSENBEKANNTSCHAFT (SBZ (GDR) 1948), young Erika gets lost in the nightlife of the big city on her quest for a luxurious life — with risky consequences. The morally tinged film seeks to educate the audience on the loss of values and venereal diseases. (April 4)