Last night I went to a B&W German film (with English sub-titles) at the St. George English Bookshop. Under the DDR, it had been banned for being critical of the judicial system. Filmed and set in the late sixties and early seventies it showed the drabness of East Berlin at that time.
There must have been a few Germans in the audience, as during some scenes that talk about terrorists sabotaging the safety of the East there were loud barracking shouts heckling the screen characters. This was an authentic banned film made at the time. The current film "Life of Others" that has won Oscars, also shown here in this Berlin bookshop, is a glamorised version, but both are riveting.
