The Film Development of the East German Film Studio DEFA

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_83How to use a DOI?

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DEFA; film development; East Germany

Abstract

The East German film studio Deutsche Film AG (DEFA) has gone through a full 45 years from its establishment in 1946 to its disappearance in 1991. In the interim, it produced about 750 feature films and 2,250 documentaries and short films, of which 14 feature films were listed among the 100 outstanding German films of modern times. Compared with the West German films of the same period, the films produced by DEFA more truly recorded the development process of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), reflecting the political and cultural changes that people experienced. This paper sorts out the famous films produced by DEFA during the 45 years in accordance with the chronological context and connects the films of different periods with the political background at that time, hoping to help readers have a clearer understanding of the history of that period through films.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lin Wang
AU  - Fei Yu
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - The Film Development of the East German Film Studio DEFA
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 655
EP  - 660
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_83
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_83
ID  - Wang2023
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