East Germany’s film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), produced a breadth and depth of films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, science fiction films, musicals, melodramas, spy thrillers, women’s films, fairy tales, and children’s films. In the fall of 2013 the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst, which was officially founded on September 23, 1993 was celebrating their 20th anniversary. The
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