The Dryden will screen Die Architekten (The Architects, Peter Kahane, East Germany 1990, 95 min., 35mm, German w/subtitles) with director Peter Kahane in person.

Architect Daniel Brenner is already in his late thirties when he finally gets a chance to build something. He energetically assembles a team of old friends, but their utopian dreams of an alternative housing project promptly cause trouble. The Architects is considered the last film completed in the East German film studio before the end of the GDR. About the price of compromise and institutional reform, it paints a poignant portrait of the last generation of East German filmmakers.

[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Oct-23]