Special Features included on the DVD Changing Skins

"Youth Culture, Terrorism and German Film History: Changing Skins"
by Barton Byg, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The author introduces the film Changing Skins as a rare production in German film history -- a comedy set against the backdrop of momentous historic events. The article also links the film to a long tradition of European films dealing with rebellious youth.

"Andreas Dresen, Gentle Subversive"
by Laura McGee, Modern Languages, Western Kentucky University.
An overview of the professional development of the important German filmmaker Andreas Dresen. Beginning with films he made as a student at the Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam, the author follows Dresen's career, reflecting on the filmmaker's emphasis on social themes that challenge viewers as well as  entertain them.

Timeline, "Terrorism in West Germany, 1967-1998"
Included are events related to the students protests at the end of the 1960s, historical moments around the June 2nd Movement and RAF - Red Army Fraction. Also considered are prominent people who were connected with the movements or events in these years.

Interview with Andreas Dresen
Cookie Ziesche asks the director about his memories of 1977, what is relevant about Changing Skins today, how it is a story unique to East Germany, what this film means to him and how it figures in his filmmaking career.

Biography and Filmography of the Director

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