New cinema meets "old" DEFA films – Irene von Alberti presents: on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of DEFA in May 1946, the DEFA Foundation is inviting important young directors to present a DEFA film at Arsenal which particularly impressed and influenced them. Director and producer Irene von Alberti is presenting two films by Iris Gusner, one of the very few women to direct DEFA features.
DIE TAUBE AUF DEM DACH(East Germany 1973/2010), a love triangle between a construction engineer, an elderly brigadier, and a young student at a large-scale construction site was banned upon completion, because the film confronted the official image of the working class with the petty bourgeois reality. In ALLE MEINE MÄDCHEN (East Germany 1979), a film student wants to shoot a portrait of a wholesome women's brigade at the Nava light bulb factory in Berlin, but the tensions within the collective escalate into fierce conflicts.(jr) (10.10.)
