A Hot Summer in East Berlin
This Thursday head on down to the Filmmuseum for a screening of Heisser Sommer — an East German musical from 1968.
“Once upon a time in the East, there was a Bloc-buster of a film genre — one that the unrestrained could call the ‘The Red Commie Musical’. These films came packed with tunes, drama, dance, romance, sheer wackiness and — most endearing for the modern Western viewer — a solidly alien conception. Who knew musicals could help sell the idea of a worker’s paradise?…”
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