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German jazz veteran Günter Baby Sommer reunites with Cold War-era colleagues on a new live CD

by Peter Margasak April 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Günter Baby Sommer’s international group, now called Quarteto Trionfale, was assembled in 1979 under a dictate to downplay the influence of West German musicians in East Germany.

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Love is a prison in the East German classic The Fiancee

by J.R. Jones February 22, 2013August 19, 2021

The drama concludes Gene Siskel Film Center’s series of films from behind the wall.

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The Wall

by Ed M. Koziarski November 11, 2009August 19, 2021

A blacklisted painter, East German Jürgen Böttcher captured the dismantling of the Berlin Wall for the state film production company in “The Wall.” The documentary screens for free Thursday 11/12 at the Goethe-Institut Chicago

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