Tonight's program, which pairs two features by director Gerhard Klein, is introduced by John Davidson, director of Ohio State's Program of Film Studies and professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Second feature start time: 8:40 PM. Greeted with suspicion by GDR authorities but a runaway hit with the public, Berlin—Schonhauser Corner is a classic teen cult film that truthfully shows how political and economic divisions impacted people's workday lives. (82 mins., 35mm)

One of the GDR's most boldly modern films, The Gleiwitz Case is a meticulous reconstruction of the 1939 Polish attack on a German town that served as Hitler's justification for marching into Poland and launching WWII. (69 mins., 35mm)

Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany is based on a series presented by The Museum of Modern Art and the Goethe-Institut New York, in collaboration with the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Images courtesy PROGRESS Film-Verleih GmbH and DEFA Film Library archive