finally makes it so the big screen. and speaking of german the world famous october fast with at least one big twist this october fest with hundreds of thousands of visitors isn't in germany at all so where is it. 1st off though and summit look at life inside the former east germany a dictatorship that hundreds of people died trying to escape now though almost 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall initiators of a new project called open memory box say it's time to finally start looking at other aspects of east germany too. personal memories were coded in a country that no longer exists. these home movies capture assigned of the former germany most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz

political scientist lawrence murphy folds the collected 415 hours of home movie rails showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click keywords in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of $149.00 german families. the footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just people living their lives despite the dictatorship. and with me here is alberto herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open memory box welcome to the show thank you now we hear a lot of people from east germany say yes it was a dictatorship but it wasn't all bad is that part of what this project is trying to

show. it's no i would say that we have and this project has not. another go any different than this is private life they did life in east germany something that many many people. didn't know and know very little about ok so it's neither good nor bad necessarily well. we never thought this project to do intend to balance any good or bad in what was a dictatorship in east germany we of course know that there was a lot of a lot of problems of injustice a lot of oppression but at the same time people were living in this country and not all who are no more victims or. perpetrators protest is their only ok so that you're bringing it back to the personal and you have footage from 149

different families in this project were you surprised that so many people were eager to make their very private images so public you know very much them because some and when we when we 2014 started the project we thought that we might receive like 2025 or us and that would have been great but no within 10 days some people donated $400.00 to the project what do you think that they wanted to make their private their home movies public like this maybe they fed the time has come to to let people know that there was also more than just the the the core political problems that were necessarily. of the fault of the war during the 30 years or this had to be analyzed and and discussed but maybe the time has come for people to feel. this is footage that

shows how we lived and there was also the few i guess that this or this would disappear now i just want to show one of these films particular. in particular it's called i regret it maybe we can take a look at this you interviewed some of the people who made these movies because they are actually silent films what is the person the mother in this video tell you about her story and why is it called i regretted what she had when she studied to go there has been they were a young young couple. and had to make a choice because they didn't find a place for the small boy take her place so she had to make a very tough choice that is to leave her with her mother and they lived separated for quite a while now a lot of people who grew up in west germany look at these videos and they're surprised to see that they look like they could have been filmed in the west what do you make about is that just west german prejudice against east germany well at 1st maybe but not because plenty of the reason because maybe people didn't know

better but of course when we look at the footage or the these 415 hours of images they all are about what private life is about its people going for holy days and speaking of holidays just just briefly want to show some footage because there's a lot of there's a lot of images of nudism and can you just briefly tell us what is that about where that is all about the people for a reason that maybe nobody really knows where it came from but in east germany going to the beach and having no clothes on was sort of a folk sport i would say it was like what people did it's a bit that was very difficult i was very different from in the west so that was a sort of freedom in a sense that the people in the west maybe didn't have a better herskovitz from open memory box thank you so much for coming on the show this is something that people can find online right if they did they just have to google yes and white and worldwide thanks so much for think you were much. moving

to the big screen now a new film is debating here in germany that many readers already know well as a novel the german lesson by secret lengths is a pivotal work of post-war german literature told from the point of view of a boy coming to grips with his own experiences under the nazis. it's a story about friendship and humanity breaking down. because one friend judy 1st and to trace the other. it's. been a supernatural reason. it's $944.00 somewhere on the german north sea coast. works have been declared degenerate art by the nazis. in the hopes that it. becomes a bit of the just wonderful she was. caught in the middle as

a young boy who tries to please both of his father figures. after i mean. if you look at. the screenplay of this new film version of the german lesson it was written by mother and son hyder and christiane sparkle. commission. for me the landscape is one of the protectionists in this story because i actually wanted it to feel like the end of the world or feel like an apocalyptic moonscape so you could ask your so secluded here why do you have to keep on fighting a war that has its battlefield somewhere else whine when it's just you here no one lives there no one's watching you. as in the novel the story is told by the boy

seeking years later it's his memories of duty and truths stunning images almost no music. when secret lands created the painter he was inspired by him in order not a portrait himself as a victim of the regime but he was actually an anti semite who sympathized with the nazi party. lentz knew that nada was involved with the nazis but chose not to include that in his novel that's artistic freedom the filmmakers agree with the choice. of words that in shy girl was a conscious decision we didn't want to make a movie about a historical person shooters of course we will be asked questions now and this is an important debate we need to have the most power and we think it's great that the movie can add to that discussion our position is clear i can buy it we'll have to

establish cannot. determine lesson is visually stunning and it's a thought provoking tale of collaborations and resistance at times story with a new relevance today. now most of us probably wouldn't want someone dressing us up as a hot dog and entering us into a race fortunately the contestants here are dark since not people each year the winner dog race kicks off october fest in cincinnati ohio with hundreds of thousands of visitors it's the biggest are terrible fest in the united states around one in 5 people in the u.s. claim german heritage but. the big moment has arrived the 1st barrel parents being tapped. a total of 120000 liters of beer will be sold join the 3 day festival many of the

beers of produced locally by breweries with german ancestry but the public's clear favorites are authentic beers from germany many specially imported just for the festival one small difference to be here does not come in massive german warming to stones but from somewhat smaller plastic because. look stuff big attraction. or ball. jermyn so it feels like you know it's nice sometimes to try to reflect on your original heritage good heritage that we've come from and i love the beer and a lot of the big. business and you think it's great a mixture of cincinnati culture and also bit of german culture it's always fun and it's not diminished by. german culture came to cincinnati 200 years ago the american midwest was a major center of german immigration. at one time almost 60 percent of the city

was of german. the numerous protestant churches in the area a reminder of this time. and some streets have now got back the german names they had before the 1st world war. so how much because they never been to germany herself yet she is still prevalent and sister mary. wrote. it all about the culture about the german culture and so thick here in cincinnati zoo scene people dressed out in their drained all then coming out with beers and the bands going down the street it's all just a great entertainment atmosphere. cincinnati celebrate speech german roots johnson and passing and lights into the night's.

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