Red Caroons is part of the DEFA Collection.

East Germany’s DEFA Studios produced more than 800 animated films. Included here are sixteen of the best – an astonishing array of animation featuring a wide variety of styles and techniques, filled with social and political satire that would have never been allowed in liveaction films.

Films included
Drum Beat (Otto Sacher, 1974)
Star and Flower (Otto Sacher, 1978)
Loneliness (Otto Sacher, 1979)
Variants (Klaus Georgi, 1979)
The Rescue (Sieglinde Hamacher, 1980)
Seven Rights of a Viewer (Marion Rasche / Peter Mißbach, 1980)
Mr. Daff Is Shooting a Film (Klaus Georgi, 1980)
Hello (Hans Moser / Thomas Rosié, 1984)
Consequence (Klaus Georgi, 1986)
The Solution (Sieglinde Hamacher, 1987)
Belly and Soul (Klaus Georgi, 1988)
The Breakdown (Klaus Georgi / Lutz Stützner, 1988)
The Full Circle (Klaus Georgi, 1988)
The Monument (Klaus Georgi / Lutz Stützner, 1989)
Sunday (Klaus Georgi / Lutz Stützner, 1989)
Island Joke (Lutz Stützner, 1990)

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker by Mary Fulbrook

Read That Was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification, and the "New" Germany by Leonie Naughton