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Why do stories about resisting the Nazis seem so important right now? Here are two discs from different labels, with one subject. Both stories are set in Germany during the war, but the approaches are quite different. A political prisoner struggles to subsist in The Fiancée an East German classic from the part-educational Defa Film Library. The recent The Invisibles from the reunited Germany chronicles the true story of four Jewish Berliners, who went underground and hid right through the war.

The Fiancée

DVD

Defa Film Library

1980 / Color / 1:37 flat full frame / 106 min. / 2019 / Die Verlobte / available through Defa Film Libary / institutional access.

Starring: Jutta Wachowiak, Regimantas Adomaitis, Slávka Budínová, Christine Gloger, Inge Keller, Käthe Reichel, Hans-Joachim Hegewald, Barbara Zinn.

Cinematography: Jürgen Brauer

Film Editor: Erika Lehmphul

Original Music: Karl-Ernst Sasse

Written by Günter Reisch, Günther Rücker, from books by Eva Lippold

Production Manager: Hans-Erich Busch

Directed by Günter Reisch, Günther...