Some cinematic landmarks of the 1960s in Stalinist East Germany
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/cine-a03.shtml
3 August 2011
By Karla
Some cinematic landmarks of the 1960s in Stalinist East Germany
By Bernd Reinhardt
The 1960s were characterised by growing social tensions and a certain intellectual and cultural ferment on a global scale. Student protest in a number of countries in the middle of the decade signalled a developing social storm. The mass French general strike in 1968 threatened the foundations of European capitalism. In the Stalinist countries, the Czech popular movement during the so-called “Prague Spring” frightened the bureaucracy there and in the USSR. The former Stalinist German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) was no exception in this regard.