Abstracts
Abstract
Since 1989 connections between the once geopolitically divided German movie industries have received increasing attention. This article considers how two films of the early post-war period—one produced in East Germany and one from the West—mobilized in different ways figurations of German suffering and sacrifice. The author argues that despite their diverging politics, the two films participate in a trans-German discourse of suffering that persisted in historically variable ways throughout the Cold War period.
Résumé
Depuis 1989, les liens entre les industries cinématographiques de ce qui avait été jusque-là deux Allemagnes géopolitiquement divisées, attirent de plus en plus l’attention. Le présent article propose d’étudier comment deux films d’après-guerre — l’un produit en Allemagne de l’Est, l’autre en Allemagne de l’Ouest — représentent de différente façon la souffrance et le sacrifice allemands. L’auteur défend l’idée que malgré leurs horizons politiques opposés, les deux films participent d’un discours de la souffrance qui transcende la dualité de l’Allemagne et qui, au-delà de ses transformations historiques, demeure constant tout au long de la guerre froide.
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