14 October 2003 - 5 December 2003

"I′ve probably been the film director with the biggest successes and the most terrible defeats among my generation in the GDR." – Frank Beyer (born in 1932) ranks among the most important German directors of feature and TV films. The films he made for cinema were created in the DEFA feature film studios in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Several of them became bones of contention in the GDR as they touched on social taboos.
Diary notes, working scripts, letters and others documents as well as production and film stills delivered insight into working processes and historical circumstances. The exhibition centred on films like "Fünf Patronenhülsen“ (1960), "Nackt unter Wölfen“ (1963), "Spur der Steine" (1966), which was banned for a long time after its public premiere, "Jakob der Lügner“ (1974), "Der Aufenthalt“ (1982), "Der Bruch“ (1989), "Ende der Unschuld“ (1991), the grotesque treatment of the German Reunification "Das große Fest" (1992), "Nikolaikirche“ (1995) and "Abgehauen“ (1998), a film after Manfred Krug′s autiobiography by the same name.