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Participants will become acquainted with the cinema in Eastern European countries of the 1950s and 1960s; they will broaden their knowledge on cinema and its aethetics in general as well as on culture, politics and history in Eastern Europe.

In the 1960s, starting with France, cinema changed fundamentally. The course will be centered around the so-called "new waves" in Eastern European cinema of the late 1950s and 1960s: in Poland the early films of Roman Polanski und Jerzy Skolimowski, in Czechoslovakia the films of Milos Forman, Vera Chytilová or Jiří Menzel, in the Soviet Union the cinema of Marlen Khutsiev, Larisa Sheptiko, Andrei Tarkovskii or Kira Muratova, in Jugoslavia the films of Dušan Makavejev or Želimir Žilnik and in Hungary the films of Miklós Janscó and Istvan Szabo. 

Lectures; presentations by the participants; discussion of texts and films

Regular and active attendance; presentations by participants; essay at the end of the term

Drubek-Meyer, Natascha / Murašov, Jurij (Hg.): Das Zeit-Bild im osteuropäischen Film. Köln-Weimar-Wien 2010; Haucke, Lutz: Nouvelle Vague in Osteuropa? Zur ostmittel- und südosteuropäischen Filmgeschichte 1960–1970. Berlin 2008; Wach, Margarete / Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF (Hg.): Nouvelle Vague Polonaise? Auf der Suche nach einem flüchtigen Phänomen der Filmgeschichte. Schüren 2015 et al.

Due to substantial differences in the allocation of ECTS-Credits in various curricula (teacher training programs/specialized degree programs), the requirements for this course vary. Information will be provided by the instructor at the beginning of the course.