Film Screening: "Silent Country (Stilles Land)" with Director Andreas Dresen
Andreas Dresen, one of Germany's top contemporary directors will present a screening of his 1992 film, "Silent Country (Stilles Land)."
A naive, young, and enthusiastic drama-school graduate has been given the job of directing his debut Waiting for Godot in a grim, super-conservative factory town. While he is working on the play, people try to dismantle the Berlin Wall.
Q&A after the screening
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Andreas Dresen, one of Germany’s most successful contemporary filmmakers, will undertake a two-week tour of the northeastern United States. Dresen will show his latest film Willenbrock in its US premiere at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He will then screen and discuss his films with faculty and students at several universities and colleges, including the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Connecticut College, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Dresen will end his tour in New York City, where he will attend the opening of the film retrospective Rebels with a Cause – The Cinema of East Germany, taking place October 7 -23 at The Museum of Modern Art.
This German Filmmaker’s Tour is organized by the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and supported by all tour participants and the DEFA Foundation Berlin. The DEFA Film Library recently released Dresen’s 1997 film Changing Skins on DVD for the North American educational market.