From Marks and Spencer to Marx and Engels : a transnational DEFA and Amber Film documentary project across the Iron Curtain

James Leggott, Tobias Hochscherf

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    Abstract

    This article looks at a noteworthy cooperation that took place between the Amber Film Collective – an independent production film group that has been based in the north-east of England for nearly thirty years – and Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) – the state-controlled national film production company of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In the late 1980s, film-makers from Amber and DEFA initiated an exchange, by which a production team from the other country would make a documentary film about the northern English city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the East German seaport of Rostock.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)123-135
    JournalStudies in Documentary Film
    Volume2
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2008

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