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The state owned East German film company DEFA produced about 800 feature films between 1946 and 1992. Besides DEFA, the state broadcaster DFF and the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst (now the Filmuniversität Babelsberg) [ 1 ] were the only other organizations in the GDR that produced feature films for cinematic release, although far fewer ...
Rudolph Rummel (1990–1997)- According to the calculations of R. J. Rummel the combined German and Austrian death toll due to the war and political killings by governments in the World War II era was 10.1 million persons. Rummel's maintains that his figures for war dead exclude political killings by governments.
While not as highly regarded as films of the preceding Weimar Republic era, [citation needed] the films of Nazi Germany, mainly made under control of Joseph Goebbels, hold a fascination for many, [citation needed] both as historical documents of one of the most important periods of 20th century history, as well as for their own artistic merit.
Trümmerfilm (English: Rubble film) was an aesthetic choice for those films made directly after World War II dealing with the impact of the battles in the countries at the center of the war. The style was mostly used by filmmakers in the rebuilding film industries of Eastern Europe , Italy and the former Nazi Germany .
[5] According to psychologist Bscheid (2009) and jurist and sociologist Volkersen (2005), it was the largest recorded mass suicide in Germany. [21] [22] Both mentioned 900 suicides. [21] [22] Rostock historian Fred Mrotzek estimated that the death toll was 1,200 to 2,500 people. [23] [24] The local cemetery recorded over 600 burials in May to ...
Early on, production of East German film was limited due to strict controls imposed by the authorities which restricted the subject-matter of films to topics that directly contributed to the Communist project of the state. Excluding newsreels and educational films, only 50 films were produced between 1948 and 1953.
A British Army bulldozer pushes bodies into a mass grave at Belsen, April 19, 1945.. The film opens with a note that the following is "a reminder that behind the curtain of Nazi pageants and parades was millions of men, women and children who were tortured to death – the greatest mass murder in human history," then fades into German civilians at Gardelegen carrying crosses to the local ...
Salon Kitty (film) The Scarlet Baroness; Signs of Life (1968 film) Stalingrad (1990 film) Stalingrad (1993 film) Stars (film) Stauffenberg (film) Stella. A Life. Die Stunde der Offiziere; Sunshine (1999 film)