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2:30 PM
Love Between the Walls + Screen Talk: The Unexpected Fall of the Wall: The Dramatic Events of 89/90
Film
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Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hongkong
- Price $ 100/80* *Tickets for full-time students, senior citizens, aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.| Group Booking Discount: 20% off for purchase of 4 or more above standard tickets. | 20% discount to Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s students with a valid proof
- Part of series: Winds of Change
2019 | 92 mins | German with English subtitles | DCP | Colour
Introduction and post-screening talk by Andreas Kötzing
Award:
Best Feature Film, Biberach Film Festival 2019
Just find love on intuition
In the summer of 1990, as the two Germanies are in the midst of reunification, teenagers Katja and Thorben, from the East and West, fall in love for the first time. As their families are in a bitter feud for the house that has been expropriated under the changing government, the two lovers duck through the holes of the Berlin Wall, meeting in “No Man’s Land”, to sneak into each other’s embrace. With Germany’s old wounds and new prejudices, hopes and fears, the two teenagers fight for their love as they learn to understand life.
Heavily influenced by East German films, West German Florian Aigner’s first directorial fiction feature is a lookback at how history still affects his country’s politics, economy and society now. With manipulated and superficial differences of ideologies still lingering, the world is still intensely tackling international politicking and nailing down its bearings today.
Screen Talk
The Unexpected Fall of the Wall: The Dramatic Events of 89/90
The fall of the Berlin Wal in November 1989 was a complete surprise for German and global governments and peoples, although there were already telltale signs of the socialist model state’s façade cracking - a growing population of opposition, Monday prayers, peaceful demonstrations and the mass flight over to Hungary amongst other traces. Historian Dr. Andreas Kötzing explains the reasons that led to the collapse of the GDR and shows how this is reflected in the films of the series Winds of Change.
Dr. Andreas Kötzing
Lecturer, German History, University of Leipzig
Research Fellow, Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies (Dresden)
Dr. Andreas Kötzing studied history and cultural studies and was a trainee at the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bonn). His research focuses on German post-war history, and cultural and media history in the Cold War. He works as a freelance film journalist for various media outlets.
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