Island of Swans
(2017, original release: 1982)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
1321680
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
When he is 14, Stefan’s parents decide to move the family to Marzahn, a desolate high-rise suburb of Berlin that isstill under construction. Stefan’s innocent childhood suddenly ends when he encounters the bullying of an older boy and his gang. Officials accused director Herrmann Zschoche and scriptwriter Ulrich Plenzdorf of giving a distorted, negative view of socialist reality. They required that the team make several edits and change the final scene, which in the original cut was open-ended
In Process Record
Film
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1982
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English