J.B. Spins

The personal should not have to be political, but it always was in the former DDR, often with tragic consequences. As a still attractive wom...

Thanks to the reunification process, the former DDR was spared most of the “Wild East” lawlessness that some former Soviet satellites had to...

A small school of late East German filmmakers came to embrace the anarchic surrealism of dada as the only logical artistic response to life ...

Arthur Koestler and his fellow apostates from Communism called the ideology “The God that Failed.” One can see how apt a term that was in He...

Filmmakers working behind the Iron Curtain had a natural affinity for the absurd and the surreal. Given their experiences under Communism, t...