Dr. Kyle Frackman introduced the film The Mistake at the virtual film festival “Authority & Alterity in East German Movies.” The Mistake (1991, original title: Verfehlung) was directed by Heiner Carow and was one of the last films produced by the state-sponsored East German film studios. It’s a bleak film, taking place in 1988, revealing discomfiting realities of the lives of East Germans at the end of their country’s existence.
The virtual film festival accompanies this year’s biennial East German Summer Film Institute offered by the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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