Friday, October 25, 2013 7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
![Image from movie, The Lives of Others](/centre-for-german-studies/sites/default/files/uploads/images/livesofothers.jpg)
This lecture will be held in English.
Florian von Donnersmarck’s renowned feature The Lives of Others displays tableaux from the GDR as a heritage for postwall times. It offers post-ideological tableaux that in fact reproduce well-known Cold War panoramas. But this is just one way of looking at the lives of others and only one sort of heritage cinema. This presentation, in probing this exemplary heritage film, will reflect on the dynamics of recent German films that revisit the past and consider the rhetoric of consensus and heritage at work in these retrospective readings.