Sun Seekers

Produced and set for release in 1958, this DEFA drama was banned at the urging of the USSR as its content regards uranium and the nuclear arms race – a sensitive topic at the time of the production. Released not before 1972 (when a new regime took power and reformulation of the country foreign policy), the film is regarded since as one of DEFA’s best. Set in a remote uranium-mining village, the story explores the tensions between East-German workers and their Russian authority figures.