German Film Series

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Viking Theater

Tuesday nights from 7-10 pm

All films are in German with English subtitles

10/6 Marx and Coca Cola (1991, Hartmut Griesmayr, 120 min.)

A touching love story revealing the heartache and triumphs following the fall of

the Berlin Wall.

10/20 The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, Henckel, 2006, 125 Min.)

An East-German spy is humanized and suffers the consequences before and

after German reunification.

11/3 Silent Country (Stilles Land, 1993, Dresen, 140 Min.)

A naïve youth directs Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” in a provincial East German

theater as the revolution is taking place in Berlin.

11/10 Good Bye, Lenin! (2003, Becker, 118 Min.)

A young man recreates East Germany for his fragile mother in 1990. Comedy.

12/8 The Tunnel (Der Tunnel, Soso Richter, 2001, 157 Min.)

Based on a true story of a group of East Berliners escaping to the West through

a tunnel they dug themselves.