Hollywood behind the wall

This book is a representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, examining both DEFA’s celebrated classics and the most acclaimed post-unification feature films by East German directors.‘Hollywood behind the wall’ demonstrates that East German cinema occupies an ambivalent position between German national cinema on the one hand and East European and Soviet cinema on the other. It includes a wide-ranging exploration of post-unification cinema from East Germany, in…