Sky Without Stars
The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1949–1963
November 15 - 23, 2017
One of Kautner’s signature films is this absorbing, almost-neorealist tale of lovers on the run about an East German factory worker and her unexpected romance with a compassionate West German cop.
Kautner’s signature film is a black-and-white, almost-neorealist story of love obstructed by the border separating the GDR and the FRG. Anna (Eva Kotthaus), an East German factory worker, sneaks over to the West, abducts her own son, and in the process meets and falls in love with a compassionate cop named Carl (Erik Schumann)—thus beginning a slow-burning romance filled with daring, unsanctioned visits to their respective sides of the Iron Curtain. Suffused by a sense of tragic fatalism, this absorbing tale of lovers on the run makes an affecting and persuasive argument about the terrible consequences of erecting walls between people. 35mm print courtesy of the Goethe-Institut.
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