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Chronotopes Of Flight From The Red Army In East And West German Feature Film (1950–1970), Jamie Zelechowski
Chronotopes Of Flight From The Red Army In East And West German Feature Film (1950–1970), Jamie Zelechowski
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This article investigates the representation of flight from the Red Army (1944/45) in East and West German feature film prior to 1970. Even while refugee figures may abound, the representation of flight appears infrequently in feature film during this period. In order to understand why this is the case as well as how and why flight is actually depicted when it is, I turn to Wolfgang Schleif’s Preis der Nationen/Das Mädchen Marion (Prize of the Nations/The Girl Marion, FRG; 1956) and Martin Eckermann’s television film Wege übers Land (Ways Across the Land, GDR; 1968) and their representations of refugee treks—which, …