Utopia in Babelsberg - Science Fiction aus der DDR 2021
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DEFA made several science fiction films that are hardly known today. These productions, called "utopian films" in the GDR, show astonishing technical achievements. ...Science fiction at DEFA was never a war of the stars, no alien invasion, but in most cases an establishment of contact with the alien via signals, a recurring plot motif. Communication instead of confrontation. These films provide information about the image of a coming socialist society, about expectations and hopes, and they were counter-images to the officially condemned Western SF art.
- Released: 2021-05-11
- Runtime: 0 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Knut Elstermann
- Director: Ingo Röske, Sven Woldt, Jens Stubenrauch, Till Kolano, Günter Thimm
