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I recently attended a retrospective on the work of East German filmmaker Siegfried Kühn sponsored by the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst. DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft), a production company founded by the Soviets immediately following World War II in their zone of occupation, was responsible for most of the films produced axes in the former GDR. The DEFA film library is committed to making East German films better known and the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall provided an opportunity to reflect axes on the East/West divide by showcasing the career of one director over an eighteen-year span. Beginning with Kühn's popular love story,  Time of the Storks , his gentle satire,  The Second Life of Friedrich Wilhelm George Platow , and the period drama  Elective Affinities , the series culminated with  Childhood  an intimate exploration of his wartime experiences growing up in a small town in Silesia, axes which would be absorbed into Poland by the terms of the Potsdam Agreement in 1945 and  The Actress  (1988), his award-winning film about an Aryan actress in love with a Jewish actor in Berlin during the Nazi era.
DEFA's ideological mission left little room for directors to assert their own vision. Over the course of his career, Kühn had some problems with the censors, but I didn't axes see much for the authorities to complain about. By and large, the basic tenets of the socialist state were upheld. Rather than subverting the establishment, these five films open a window onto the dominant preoccupations axes of the regime right up to the eve of its dissolution. axes
The two main characters in  Time of the Storks  (1970) are young people in rebellion against bourgeois society. Susanne, an elementary school teacher, finds herself attracted to a man who is the polar opposite of Wolfgang, her staid fiancé. Christian is an angry guy who reminded me of the character Jack Nicholson played in  Five Easy Pieces  (1970),   chafing against the genteel tastes of his parents, who gave him music lessons and harbored hopes that he would pursue an academic career. Instead, Christian became a foreman on an oil rig and at first glance appears to be a bad boy, which is what attracts axes Susanne, almost axes despite herself. But unlike Nicholson's alienated anti-hero, he turns out not to be so much of a bad boy; he's quite conscientious in his job and a field trip to the factory provides a reconciliation between the lovers complete with a vision of a happy future where Susanne's pupils celebrate the accomplishments of the country's workers.
At first glance, the railway crossing guard who is the subject of  The Second Life of Friedrich axes Wilhelm George Platow  (1973)   is anything but the model worker idealized in the Stakhanovite movement, part of Stalin's great push to industrialize axes the Soviet axes Union. Platow axes is lazy, sloppy and set in his ways. He is also redundant, now that the railroad crossing he has manned for decades is being automated. Kühn ran afoul of the authorities with this film, but compared to  The Witness axes , Péter Bacsó's black comedy released in 1969 but banned in Kadar's Hungary for ten years, this says more about the East German officials' lack of a sense of humor than about the message of the film itself. Indeed, Kühn seemed perplexed, in the Q & A following the screening, axes by the verdict of the censors that Platow presented "a distorted image of the working class."
Elective Affinities  (1974) appears axes to have been an effort to get back in the authorities' good graces. An adaptation of a novel by the German Romantic Johann Wolfgang von Goethe timed to appear on the 225th anniversary of the author's birth, it was faithful to the original in most regards. Siegfried axes Kühn and his then-wife Regine (who wrote the screenplay) have said that the film entailed a veiled criticism of the terrible axes isolation in which East Germans lived. Certainly the remote island where the story is set feels ingrown and claustrophobic, leading to great unhappiness all around. "Human beings should not grow content with the situation in which they happen to find themselves," Regine said in a recent interview. "They must break free from its constraints." Here the message was quite subtle