September Love

September Love German Septemberliebe is an East German film directed by Kurt Maetzig. It was released in 1961.

While the Khruschev Thaw allowed a considerable degree of liberalization in all Eastern Block countries, including in East Germany, the commitment of DEFA to follow the Socialist Unity Party of Germanys line was reaffirmed in the 1958 Bitterfeld Conference although many pictures with less ideological restrictions were made at the time, the studio devoted much resources to produce films about the EastWest German tensions. September Love was one of eight major works of this genre made between 1959 to 1964.Maetzig told an interviewer that he was influenced by the sharpening political climate, on the eve of the erection of the Berlin Wall it became clear that a confrontation of some kind was brewing... We could not stand and watch... As events lurched toward a crisis. ........

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