DEFA Animated Films without Comments - PROGRESS Film-Verleih

Mister Daff Shoots A Film
(Herr Daff macht eine Filmaufnahme - Folge 2)
DEFA 1980, cartoon
Director, screenplay Klaus Georgi
Photography Ursula Grünberg
Music Manfred Pieper
Color - 4 min.
Seven Stories about Mister Daff, a loveable
contemporary. His comical entanglements reflect the
smaller and greater problems of everyday life, and
always the way to overcome these problems. A bus-driver is suddenly very polite,
because he thinks he is being filmed, while only just a few minutes ago he had left his
passengers standing in the rain.
An animated film for adults from the Mister Daff series.
Island Joke
(Inselwitz)
DEFA 1990, cartoon
Director, screenplay Lutz Stützner
Photography Steffen Nielitz
Music Eberhard Weise
Color - 2 min.
At least the three are still alive after the shipwreck.
Freezing and with chattering teeth they reach an
island. A mermaid gives them a piece of cloth. The
three make a flag and salute it – freezing and with chattering teeth.
Kafka's Dream
(Kafkas Traum)
DEFA 1989, cartoon
Director, screenplay Sieglinde Hamacher
Photography Helmut Krahnert
Music Hans-Friedrich Ihme
Color - 8 min.
Kafka sees how a waitress pinches a bit from the
plate she has to serve the next moment. Disgustedly
he complains about it. The girl is sentenced to
stoning. Kafka did not mean to set off this sentence,
but the stones are thrown with even more diligence at
the waitress. Kafka, powerless against the events, kills himself. The girl is sent back to
serve plates.
Progress Film paid the short film but could not show it before the fall of the wall.
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