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I certainly got the impression that "Das Leben der Anderen" was made by West Germans. If it had been made by East Germans I'd expect to have found in it somethi
by bloak 6y ago
I certainly got the impression that "Das Leben der Anderen" was made by West Germans. If it had been made by East Germans I'd expect to have found in it something surprising, something exotic, something I hadn't seen before, because I never even visited East Germany. But in fact everything in the film conformed precisely to Western ideas of what East Germany was like. I didn't even hear any music I didn't recognise: every background song seemed to have been taken from a one-euro shop CD called "Das Beste aus der DDR".
- 082349872349872 6y agoYoutube probably has some DDR-era stuff, if you speak german. ("Besserwesser" is a pejorative these days for former West Germans who think they know more than the former East Germans [about what it was like]) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VKBgxOY5g8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VKBgxOY5g8 is Sting's reminiscence[1] of how his song "Russians" came to be; having watched some USSR kid's TV[2] myself, I agree with him that the russians did, in fact, love their children too. [1] Sorry it's a video, the article I originally read has gone down the memory hole. [2] hint: YT search gives different results in latin and in cyrillic. Separating BRD from DDR will be more difficult.
- 082349872349872 6y agoanother thought: http://diafilmy.su http://diafilmy.su has stuff in german, which undoubtedly is DDR-sourced. Don't know if it's indexed separately (but you might use "Poisk" to search for DDR cities to start)