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East German Film Festival

Tuesday, 29 March, 2016

Käthe Kollwitz: Images of a Life (Dir. Ralf Kirsten,GDR, 1987, 95 min., color, English subtitles).  Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was 47 years old and a well-established artist in Germany and abroad, when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to fight in WWI and was killed. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz’s life and art forever. This film fits parts of Kollwitz’s unpublished letters and diaries together in a mosaic-like self-portrait. Kollwitz was and remains one of the best loved German artists of all time, known for her sculpture, painting, and printmaking, and for her social engagement. Kirsten’s moving account of her life shows how her profound personal grief shaped her art.

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