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Matinee Saxon State Archive

Despite state control of the media, a vibrant subculture existed in the GDR, separate from the official glossy productions: From skilled hobby filmmakers like the “filmmaking baker” Manfred Seifert to critical voices from formerly state-controlled film studios. The Saxon State Archive presents a selection of these diverse Central German perspectives from around 1980.

Animated Film

GDR

1981

Kreislauf

Manfred Seifert

Matinee Saxon State Archive

Animated Film

GDR

1981

5 minutes

without dialogue

Subtitles:

None

No Premiere

In this silhouette film, Manfred Seifert demonstrates the disastrous consequences of thoughtless waste disposal – true to the motto: You reap what you sow. Sometimes recycling can be a one-way street when people act as depicted in the film. As topical today as it was in the early 1980s.

Meike Weimann

Eastern German