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Classic German movies at the Portland German Film Festival

Classic German movies at the Portland German Film Festival

While the Portland German Film Festival is always trying to get the newest movies from Germany to Portland and has and will have several US Premieres of modern German movies, one should never forget the “classics”. For the first time the Portland German Film Festival will show classic German movies as a matinee on Sundays @ 1.00 PM during the

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The Cinema of East Germany

The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the only archive and study center outside Europe devoted to the study of a broad spectrum of filmmaking by East German filmmakers or related to East Germany from 1946 to the present.


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HOT SUMMER (HEISSER SOMMER) at MOVIES IN THE PARK on Aug. 21, 2014

HOT SUMMER (HEISSER SOMMER) at MOVIES IN THE PARK on Aug. 21, 2014

Please join us for an evening in NW Wallace Park for music, German food by Urban German ( famous for the ‘Currywurst’) free popcorn and a fun summer movie sponsored by Zeitgeist Northwest and the German Program in the School of Language, Culture and Society at Oregon State University This screening is part of Portland’s MOVIES IN THE PARK series

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The DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst Turns 20!

East Germany’s film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), produced a breadth and depth of films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, science fiction films, musicals, melodramas, spy thrillers, women’s films, fairy tales, and children’s films. In the fall of 2013 the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst, which was officially founded on September 23, 1993 was celebrating their 20th anniversary. The

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