GERMANY: BEHIND THE WALL
Hava Kohav Bellah, USA, 2002 Sunday 23 May 2004 10pm-11.30pm; rpt Monday 31 May 11.30pm-1am
A dozen years after the collapse of East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hava Beller movingly investigates the dilemma of individual resistance within a totalitarian state.
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We know how the Berlin Wall was put up, and how it came down; but the history of the society which it enclosed is lost to us. Hava Kohav Bellah's film tells the often sad but fascinating story of the fractured dreams of the German Democratic Republic.
Courtesy of Good Bye Lenin! the retro chic of East German communism has resulted in a flood of cultish memorabilia. Behind the Wall reveals that the GDR was not a nice or exciting place, not at all, but that there were certain people who proved courageous enough to resist the ideologues. It's good to see that they are still remembered.
