The Rabbit Is Me (I Am the Rabbit)
1965 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)
"The Rabbit Is Me" was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. In it, a young student has an affair with a judge who once sentenced her brother for political reasons; she eventually confronts him with his opportunism and hypocrisy. It is a sardonic portrayal of the German Democratic Republic's judicial system and its social implications. The film was banned by officials as an anti-socialist, pessimistic and revisionist attack on the state. It henceforth lent its name to all the banned films of 1965, which became known as the "Rabbit Films".
Direction Kurt Maetzig
Cast Angelika Waller · Alfred Müller · Ilse Voigt · Wolfgang Winkler · Irma Münch · Rudolf Ulrich · Helmut Schellhardt · Annemarie Esper · Willi Schrade · Willi Narloch
Soundtrack Reiner Bredemeyer · Gerhard Rosenfeld
Screenplay Kurt Maetzig · Manfred Bieler
Cinematography Erich Gusko
Original title Das Kaninchen bin ich - The Rabbit Is Me (I Am the Rabbit)
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