For this workshop, Ian Fleishman will present work in progress towards an essay titled "Prague Displaced: Political Tourism in the East German Blockbuster Heißer Sommer" for a forthcoming volume on Celluloid Revolt: Screen Cultures and the Long Sixties, edited by Marco Abel and Christina Gerhardt. When Joachim Hasler's campy DEFA musical turned cult classic Heißer Sommer—which follows a group of carefree young adults on a summer trip to a Baltic beach—was released in June of 1968, it must have seemed a pleasant distraction from the contemporary political climate. An overt attempt to appeal to younger audiences through an imitation of West German Schlagerfilme, the film delicately negotiates the need to tame and to appease an increasingly rebellious youth culture while simultaneously toeing a strict party line espousing socialist values. This essay proposes a reexamination of the blockbuster musical and its celebration of tourist escapism in light of a repressed East German complicity with a culture of political protest in Prague and across Europe.