Presented here are nine short films that feature: film director Slatan Dudow; actor Martin Brandt; authors Erich Fried, Erich Weinert, and Arnold Zweig; photographer Walter Ballhause; cartoonist Leo Haas; and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch.. Original interviews with the artists, close family members, and friends are combined with little-known historic film material. "East German documentaries often portrayed leftist and liberal artists who were forced...