Aside from anything else, there's something very peculiar about the fact that even among communist bloc states, East Germany really didn't leave a mark on cinema culture, outside of this film
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Teddy Bear 1981
I can highly recommend the experience of going to a screening of a Polish cult comedy where you're the only non-Pole there, and understand maybe 40% of the jokes
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda 2017
We were just getting ready to record, when Bertolucci came up to me and said "Ryuichi, I don't like the intro. You need to change it." And I said "We're about to record! I can't rewrite the score in front of a 40-piece orchestra". Then he replied "Well Ennio Morricone always used to be able to". So I knew if Ennio could do it, so could I.
No idea what appeal this would have to someone who wasn't already a…