Film Screening
Kino@Goethe celebrates 70 Years of German Cinema

Selection of the best and most successful German films

Sun, 06/09/2024
4:00 PM Goethe-Institut Boston

Kino@Goethe is celebrating 70 years of German Films, Germany's film marketing agency and a strong partner of the Goethe-Institut worldwide, with this program out of a selection of the best and most successful German films over the past seven decades by German film expert Alfred Holighaus.

4:00 PM The White Ribbon 
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of thismystery.

Directed by Michael Haneke
Germany, 2009
DVD, 145 min.

 

6:30 PM Yesterday Girl 
Born in 1937 to Jewish parents, Anita G. leaves the GDR for West Germany in search of a better life. With no home or job, she is caught stealing and sent to prison. After her release her probation officer tries to help her, but she has trouble adjusting to life in a new society and becomes a drifter. When she falls in love with a married civil servant, she finally begins to feel a sense of security, until she is recognized by a woman she betrayed.

Directed by Alexander Kluge
West Germany, 1966
DVD, 88 min.