East German Cinema.

"There's a fair amount of barbed wire and bitterness in the films of the German Democratic Republic, but there's much more," writes Robert Horton, introducing our newest primer, "East German Cinema."

Preparing a lecture on Cold War cinema, he's "had the chance to delve into the world of GDR film and found it arresting in many ways - an island unto itself, yet connected to the greater flow of movie history in unexpected flashes."

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