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Dir. Frank BeyerGermany, 1966
DVD, 134 min
'Trace of Stones' was first released in 1966 but was banned in the GDR only a short time later due to its so-called “anti-socialist tendencies.” On a construction site plagued by shortages and poor planning, two men from different worlds confront each other—the swaggering pragmatist who leads an elite crew of carpenters, and the obedient bureaucrat who represents the Party’s interests. They fall in love with the same woman, an engineer on her first big assignment.
Frank Beyer is considered one of the most important and internationally renowned filmmakers of the GDR. Despite his increasingly critical stance towards the SED (the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the governing party of East Germany) over the years, he was awarded several prizes there, including the GDR National Prize.
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