Strange New Worlds: Science Fiction at DEFA

[Dai]

I stumbled across the Amazon listing for this. I'd never heard of this old East German studio, but this collection of their SF movies from the 60s and 70s looks interesting in Eureka's trailer for their upcoming box set.

https://youtu.be/2asT2nkzJZQ?si=RMYS1ASTZFIGn1eD

The included movies are The Silent Star, Signals: A Space Adventure, Eolomea, and In the Dust of the Stars. Some of them have startlingly low IMDB ratings though (in the 4 or 5 range), so I do wonder if Eureka just managed to cut together a good trailer. Has anyone seen any of these movies before?

[lhb412]

I've only become aware of them recently because while the release you've specified is coming to the UK both Signals & In the Dust of the Stars have just been released in the US by one of my favorite labels, Deaf Crocodile. They specialize in European fantasy/sci-fi/animation (but do more than that as well) and first came on my radar when the started releasing Alexander Ptushko's fairy tale films - you know, those awesome Russian flicks that were featured on MST3K episodes! They're about to start a multi-volume "Best of Soviet Animation" series that's got me salivating. I'm always interested in whatever they're acquiring.

Deaf Crocodile is good about putting their stuff on free streamers like Tubi or on the app I get via my public library, so it's easy to just casually check out stuff from their catalog.

[Dai]

^That's interesting. I've checked Tubi just now, but it doesn't look like there's anything on there yet. If Deaf Crocodile do put them on there then it may be region-locked to the US.

[lhb412]

^ Ah, forgot you're in the UK!