This complete listing of our streaming titles includes individual films and playlists that group several titles together. The DEFA Film Library works with Kanopy, an educational streaming service, to provide top-notch access to our films. To purchase a 1- or 3-year license, go to our online store (umass.edu/defa) or email KANOPY at: helpdesk@kanopy.com. KANOPY can also help you arrange for PDA (patron-driven acquisition). If you have any ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS about streaming our films, please email: video@german.umass.edu. (Updated September 2018) TITLE PLAYLIST A Berlin Romance Actress, The Adventures of Werner Holt, The Airship, The All My Girls And Your Love Too Animation Before Unification (collection) Apaches Apprehension Architects, The Arctic Sea Is Calling, The Art Work -Six Shorts (collection) Arts in Exile (collection) As Long as There Is Life in Me Axe of Wandsbek, The Baling Out Bear Ye One Another's Burden Beethoven - Days in a Life Berlin - Schönhauser Corner Drum Beat; Star and Flower; Loneliness; Variants; The Rescue; Seven Rights of a Viewer; Mr. Daff Is Shooting a Film; Hello; Consequence; The Solution; Belly and Soul; The Breakdown; The Full Circle; The Monument; Sunday; Island Joke. A Regular DEFA Film? Director Peter Kahane on The Architects; Interview with Director Peter Kahane on The Architects. Three of Many; Shunters; Hermann Glöckner: A Brief Visit; Transformation: Potter's Bull; Transformation: Venus after Giorgione; Transformation: Woman at the Clavichord. Traces; Arnold Zweig; Erich Fried: The Whole World Should Endure; Even Today He'd Speak His Mind; Malik; Leo Haas: Artist and Witness of His Time; Do You Know Where Herr Kisch Is?; Slatan Dudow: A Film Essay about a Marxist Artist; Walter Ballhause: One Among Millions. Director Falk Harnack: A Stubborn German Conscience (Interview with Historian Anne Nelson). Interview with Director Lothar Warnecke on His Film Bear Ye One Another's Burden; Film Professions: The Makeup Artist Frank May.
Berlin around the Corner Bicycle, The Blood Brothers Blue Light, The Blum Affair, The Born in '45 A Short Conversation about a Bicycle: The Filmmakers of The Bicycle. Interview with Cinematographer Roland Gräf on Born in '45; The Banned Films of 1965 - A Discussion; Newsreel 1975: Five Reports on New Apartments and Social Buildings in the GDR; Newsreel 1976: About the Prenzlauer Berg District; Newsreel 1977: One in Five Berliners will Receive a New Home By 1980. Trace of Memories: A Portrait of Director Frank Beyer; Stacheltier: News from the West. Carbide & Sorrel Career Carla Interview with Scriptwriter Ulrich Plenzdorf on the Making of Carla. Castles & Cottages, Part 1: Crooked Anton; Part 2: Annegret's Homecoming. Children of Golzow Part 1; Part 2. Chingachgook, the Great Snake Dangerous Moments on the Set: Film Historian Ralf Schenk Interviews Actor Gojko Mitic. Coded Message for the Boss Coming Out Copyright by Luther Council of the Gods Destinies of Women Devil's Three Golden Hairs, The Divided Heaven Dove on the Roof, The Elective Affinities Eolomea Ernst Barlach: Mystic of Modernity Ete and Ali Farewell Five Cartridges Five Days, Five Nights Flight, The Flying Dutchman, The Interview with Director Kurt Maetzig on Council of the Gods; Film Professions: Set Designer Dieter Adam and His Career at the DEFA Studio; Newsreel 1947/53/12: Kurt Maetzig Directs Marriage in the Shadows ; Newsreel 1950/46/6: IG Farben - Scapegoat or National Traitor; Newsreel 1950/51/1: Director Kurt Maetzig Elected President of Film Section at the Berlin Film Meeting; Newsreel 1961/5/2: Director Kurt Maetzig's 50th Birthday; Kurt Maetzig Filming The Dream of Captain Loy. GDR Magzine 1973/09: Residential Building and Daily Life in the GDR. Cosmonaut Dreams - Made in Babelsberg: Conversation with Barbara Müller (Costumes) and Kurt Marks (Special Effect Shots) on Eolomea. Director Roland Gräf and Dramaturg Christel Gräf on the Making of The Flight. Musicologist Kristel Pappel-Herz in Conversation with Film Historian Ralf Schenk on The Flying Dutchman; Newsreel 1964/8: Making The Flying Dutchmann.
For Eyes Only Top Secret Girls in Gingham Gleiwitz Case, The Golden Goose, The Goya Held for Questioning Her Third Herzsprung Hot Summer I Was Nineteen In Spite of Everything! In the Dust of the Stars Jacob the Liar Jadup and Boel Disco Film 5: In the Heart of US Military Espionage - Cold War Stasi Agent Horst Hesse; Newsreel 1956/29: A US Agent in the GDR - Cold War Stasi Agent Horst Hesse. Film Professions: Conversation with Film Editor Evelyn Carow. Interview with Scripwriter Angel Wagenstein on Goya ; Interview with Scripwriter Actress Tatjana Lolowa on Goya. Interview with Scriptwriter Günther Rücker on Her Third; Sylvia. Newsreel 1968/7/2: Premiere of I Was Nineteen at the Cinema International; Newsreel 1968/9/7: Interview with Actor Jaecki Schwarz on I Was Nineteen. Trace of the Times: Director Frank Beyer. The Case of Jadup and Boel, with Film Historian Larson Powell; Interview with Director Rainer Simon on His Film Jadup and Boel. Just Don't Think I'll Cry Just Married Kaiser's Lackey, The Interpreting The Kaiser's Lackey, with Historian Andrew Donson. Käthe Kollwitz: A Conversation with Hildegard Bachert Käthe Kollwitz: Images of a Life Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? La Villette Land beyond the Rainbow, The Last Year Titanic Latest from the Da-Da-R Tuba Wa Duo. Legend of Paul and Paula, The Leipzig in the Fall Eastern Landscape. Lissy Look at this City Lost Angel, The Ludwig van Beethoven Lutz Dammbeck: Against the Mainstream (collection) The Moon; Live!; The Tailor of Ulm; Einmart; The Discovery; The Flood. Marriage in the Shadows Interview with Director Kurt Maetzig on Marriage in the Shadows.
Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's Fortune Miraculi Mistake, The Murderers Are among Us, The Naked among Wolves Newsreel 1963: Premiere of Naked among Wolves in Moscow; Newsreel 1964/28: As an Adult, Stefan Jerzy Zweig Meets with Buchenwald Survivors in Czechoslovakia; Newsreel 1975/5: Novelist and Former Buchenwald Inmate Bruno Apitz at an Event for the Liberation of Luis Corvalan. Newsreels 1946-1980 (collection) Includes 32 Newsreels. Our Daily Bread Our Short Life Professor Mamlock Rabbit Is Me, The Interview with Director Kurt Maetzig on His Film The Rabbit Is Me and the 1965 Film Ban; Censorship in 1965: Interview with Hans Bentzin, Former GDR Minister of Culture (1961-65); Banned! DEFA and the 11th Plenum, 1965. Ready for Life Red Orchestra, The Rock 'n' Roll Rotation A Film with with a Mission: Rotation - Film Interview with Film Historian Christiane Mückenberger; Newsreel 1946/8/1: The Murderers Are among Us - the First DEFA Premiere; Newsreel 1948/121/3: Director Wolfgang Staudte Filming Europe Will Laugh Again; Newsreel 1949/7/1: From Ufa to DEFA - First Films at the DEFA Studio: Rotation, Girls in Gingham and Marriage in the Shadows. Rumpelstilskin Russians Are Coming, The Sabine Kleist, Age 7 Sailors' Song, The Second Life of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow, The Second Track, The Seven Freckles Silent Star, The Singing, Ringing Tree, The Snow White Solo Sunny Somewhere in Berlin Sons of Great Bear, The Film Portrait of Cinematographer Rolf Sohre Newsreel 1959/34B/8: The First British Film Week in the GDR and Visit to the DEFA Studio; Newsreel 1959/40B/9: A Rocket in the Soviet Occupied Zone and The Silent Star. Looking for Konrad Wolf and Solo Sunny - an Interview with Scriptwriter and Director Wolfgang Kohlhaase. How I Began Making Movies - Film Historian Ralf Schenk Interviews Actor Gojko Mitic.
Special Features: Kuhle Wampe (collection) Spring Takes Time Stars Story of a Young Couple, The Story of Little Mook, The Sun Seekers How the Berlin Worker Lives; Slatan Dudow: A Film About a Marxist Artist; Original 1958 Prologue to Kuhle Wampe Or Who Owns the World? with Herbert Jhering. Interview with Scriptwriter Angel Wagenstein about the Film Stars. The Wismut Today; Newsreel 1959/85/6: Actor Günther Simon at the International Film Festival Ball in Berlin; Newsreel 1960/4/10: Actor Günther Simon at a Tennis Tournament in Berlin; Newsreel 1961/5/2: Actor Günther Simon Filming Kurt Maetzig's Captain Loy's Dream; Newsreel 1967/21/3: Preview of Stories of That Night and Actors Günther Simon and Helga Göring at the Berlin Premiere of Bread and Roses; Newsreel 1970/6/4: Director Konrad Wolf on Making Goya ; Newsreel 1967/45/2: Premiere of The Banner from Kriwoj Rog at Berlin's Kino International; Newsreel 1958/46/6: The Rocket (Agitation Patrol); Newsreel 1958/45/8: Abolition of Meal Tickets (Agitation Patrol); Newsreel 1958/92/10: The Argument (Agitation Patrol); Newsreel 1958/95/32: Politics of a Front City (Agitation Patrol); Newsreel 1960/14/7: DEFA Actors Give Autographs. Swan Island Tango Player, The Interview with Director Roland Gräf on The Tango Player. Till Eulenspiegel Time of the Storks Too Young for Love Trace of Stones Interview with Actress Krystyna Stypulkowska on Trace of Stones. Until Death Do Us Part Verdict on Auschwitz Part 1; Part 2; Part 3. Verdict on Auschwitz - Abridged Wall, The Were the Earth Not Round When You're Older, Dear Adam whisper & SHOUT Winged Serpent: Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Winter Ade Wolz: The Life and Illusions of a German Anarchist Woman and the Stranger, The Interview with Director Rainer Simon on The Woman and the Stranger. Wozzeck Your Unknown Brother Newsreel 1961/17/3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Becomes a Memorial Place of Remembrance; Newsreel 1979/21/1: A Visit to the DEFA Studio; Kinobox #36/1984/4: Irene Harloff, Communist and Resistance Fighter, Remembers
Coming in Fall 2018 Airship, The ( replacement) Battle on Canvas Crop Seeds Should Not Be Ground Dusk: 1950s East Berlin Bohemia Fiancée, The Fritz Cremer: The Buchenwald Memorial Isabel on the Stairs Midnight Revue Naked Man on the Sports Field, The Theater Work the Plum Trees Have Surely Been Cut Down; On Brecht s Galileo Galilei; 1968 Brecht Dialog DEFA Film Library University of Massachusetts Amherst 502 Herter Hall 161 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003 P (413) 545-6681 umass.edu/defa defa@german.umass.edu