Overview of feature, documentary and animated films.
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The newsreel “The Eye-Witness” held this campaign from 1946 to 1948: short reports about children who list their parents during the confusion of war.
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10405 Berlin
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Children’s film often implies fairytale film. Every country has its own treasure of fairy tales. Motives may be similar but it is the unknown and unexpected that fascinates us. The tales about fantastic and wondrous encounters play an important role in a child’s personality development. Besides Sheherezade’s Arabian Nights, shot by the Tajik director Tachir Sabirow, PROGRESS Film-Verleih’s repertoire includes further tales from the Orient, from Asian and Eastern European countries such as the Uzbek “Magic Bird Semiurg” or the “Close Encounters with the Jolly Devil” from Poland. DEFA fairy tales based upon classic tales by Wilhelm Hauff, the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen are part of the national film heritage.
When you are still small, everyday challenges seem quite big. It helps when Fat Little Tilla demonstrates that you can solve conflicts with tolerance. Those who are not among the most courageous children could see the world differently after watching the film The Coward, which won the UNICEF Award. From a historical point of view, the story about the friendship between the boy from Berlin and a gipsy girl in the 20s When Unku Was Ede’s Friend is just as exciting nowadays as the post-war experiences of Sheriff Teddy and the events in The Owl’s Hole. Or does anyone claim that there are no more street gangs, rivalries and secrecies?
There is this in-between age: no longer a child but not yet grown-up. This causes many an "Icarus" to walk out of the house Barefoot And Without A Hat in August Street, Berlin only to be able to Yell Once A Week. The assumption that you are Still Too Slight For Love can only be answered: "Just Don’t Think I’m Crying". In feature films as well as in documentaries, DEFA dealt with this difficult period in life and threw light at it from different angles. Even where censorship interfered with film making, beautiful unique films were passed on, like Miss Butterfly and When You’re Older Adam.
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