Latest from the DaDaeR

In a loose set of cabaret pieces Steffen Mensching and HansEckardt Wenzel highly acclaimed East German poets songwriters and clowns satirize East German life in its final days and the arrival of new times after the fall of the Berlin Wall The clowns are allowed to leave prison to sing for people outside As they perform their pieces however the country sinks into rebellion the prison is attacked and looted and the people chase the clowns away Latest from the DaDaR was the first film made by an artistic production group that had fought for independence within the structures of the stateowned DEFA film studio for years DaDaR is a wordplay on the irreverent Dada art movement of the 1920s and the German acronym for East Germany the DDR