Co-presented with Anthology Film Archives

Following the online streaming series “Konrad Wolf: Ways to Enlightenment” this autumn, the German Film Office is proud to present the first-ever complete survey of Wolf’s work in North America, in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives and the DEFA Film Library.

A director whose career represents a fascinating and crucial bridge between pre-war German cinema and the New German Cinema movement of the 1960s, Konrad Wolf would have turned 100 in October. Among favorites like Lissy and I Was Nineteen, audiences can celebrate Wolf’s centennial at screenings of his debut film Once Does Not Count, his formerly banned drama of East German uranium plant workers Sun Seekers, and his highly stylized adaption of The Little Prince, commissioned for the launch of color television in East Germany.

“What stands out in Wolf’s oeuvre is his brilliant capacity to merge modernist and realist cinematic traditions,” writes Angelos Koutsourakis, Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. “His best films invite us to reflect on our social responsibility and our actions as citizens, the need to use memories of a traumatic past to transform the future, and the compatibility of artistic autonomy with the social function of art.” Explore the program below!

Film Program

Once Does Not Count
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1955, 97 min.)

Recovery
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1955, 105 min.)

Lissy
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1957, 89 min.)

Sun Seekers
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1958, 115 min.)

Stars
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany/Bulgaria, 1959, 88 min.)

People with Wings
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1960, 121 min.)

Professor Mamlock
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1961, 93 min.)
35mm print

Divided Heaven
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1964, 109 min.)

The Little Prince
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1966, 77 min.)

I Was Nineteen
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1968, 115 min.)

Goya, or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany/Soviet Union, 1971, 136 min.)

The Naked Man on the Sports Field
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany, 1973, 102 min.)

Mama, I’m Alive
Dir. Konrad Wolf
(East Germany/Soviet Union, 1977, 103 min.)
35mm print

Solo Sunny
Dir. Konrad Wolf & Wolfgang Kohlhaase
(East Germany, 1979, 102 min.)
35mm print