Film Festival for the Fall of the Berlin Wall

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German Embassy in Panama and the University Experimental Film Group (GECU) have organized a film festival in which three films will be shown: a drama and two documentaries, related to the topic. The inauguration will take place on Monday, November 24^th  at the University Cinema at 7:30 pm, with the movie "Barbara" by Christian Petzold.

Monday 24: Barbara

It is a drama written and directed by Christian Petzold with Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock (Germany 2012)

Summer of 1980 in the German Democratic Republic. Barbara, a doctor, has requested authorization to definitely go to the West. As punishment, she is moved from the capital to a village. Jörg, her lover, who lives in the West, organizes her escape. Barbara awaits.

The apartment, neighbors, summer, field, nothing seems to care. She works in the department of pediatrics at the orders of André, a surgeon. She is affectionate with patients, but distant with her peers. She is convinced that her future will start elsewhere. But André surprises her. He does not understand why he trusts her, in her professionalism. Why does not he report her for wanting to help a teenager who have escaped? Has he been ordered to have an eye on her? Is he in love with her? The day of the escape approaches and Barbara begins to lose control of herself, and her plans. Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival, among other awards and selected for the Oscar. 108 '

Tuesday 25: Train to Freedom

Docdrama by Sebastian Dehnhardt and Matthias Schmidt (Germany 2014).
Nearly 4,000 people packed the night of September 30^th , 1989 the garden of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague. They had fled the RDA and had days waiting to hear if they could go to the Federal Republic of Germany or not. Until the good news were announced: they could travel. But the way the should make by train passed by the RDA. A thriller thus began for the Embassy refugees. On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall the Broadview company shot this docudrama that gives voice to many eyewitnesses, through original footage, interviews and reenactments. The film tells the story of Christian Bürger, a refugee from the RDA, to whom the days in the Embassy and dramatic train ride changed him forever. 90 '

Wednesday 26: To the Border - a private look at the wall

Documentary by Claus Oppermann and Gerald Grote (Germany 2012).
The documentary experts Oppermann and Grote took material hundreds of home movies of 8 and 16 millimeters never before released and private photos of citizens of Germany, Austria and the US, and made this unique and powerful film about life in Berlin from the day the construction of the Wall began, which also marked a change in the realities of all, with separated families, couples apart, near and dear people in prison, lacks, among other circumstances. This documentary takes viewers on a journey in time with previously unreleased footage and testimonies, showing the lives of ordinary citizens and their perspectives since that August 13^th , 1961 to the emotional Fall of the Wall in 1989. 95 '.
 

Source. Caribbean News Digital (Panama)