Byre World 2025-26 - East German Cinema and the Holocaust
Byre World 2025-26 continues Tuesday 27 January 2026 with East German Cinema and the Holocaust.
Join us for a screening of Konrad Wolf’s Sterne / Stars (PG). The film will be shown in German with English subtitles.
Bulgaria 1943. Wehrmacht sergeant Walter is stationed in a small city and supervises civilian Bulgarian workers at a car repair shop. Not far away, Greek Jews are housed in a camp for a few days. They are to be deported to Auschwitz. He meets the Jewish woman Ruth, who asks him for help for a pregnant woman through the barbed wire. Walter gets closer to Ruth, has conversations with her about hope and humanity, and develops feelings for her.
After the film there will be a Q&A with Seán Allan (St Andrews) and Elizabeth Ward (University of Leipzig and author of East German Film and the Holocaust).
This event is supported by the Goethe Institut.
Join us at the Byre Theatre, St Andrews - Tuesday 27 January 2026, 6pm. Pay What You Can £6/£4.
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