The Dryden will screen Die Russen kommen (The Russians Are Coming, Heiner Carow, East Germany 1971, 92 min., DCP, German w/ subtitles).

Director Heiner Carow's semi-autobiographical story about sixteen-year-old Günter, a member of the Hitler Youth who is part of the Nazis' last-ditch effort to resist the feared approaching Soviet Army, did not get the approval for final production in 1968. Censors lamented the film's focus on an ordinary Nazi follower rather than an anti-fascist hero, and objected to its "contamination with modernism." Today considered a classic of its era, the film was finally released in East Germany in 1987.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-Jan-23]