WRACK AND RUIN: THE RUBBLE FILM AT DEFA (Masters of Cinema
WRACK AND RUIN: THE RUBBLE FILM AT DEFA (Masters of Cinema) Standard Edition Three-disc Se The first film studio to begin operating in post-war Germany, DEFA was officially authorised to produce films in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946. Overseen by the Soviet Military Administration, one of its primary mandates was to aid in the denazification of Germany by focusing on anti-fascist themes in films that would ruminate on the literal and figurative wreckage left behind by the Third Reich. Often shot on location in the ruins of Berlin, these early DEFA productions have come to be called Trümmerfilme or...