[Demonstration in Dresden am 22. Januar 1990; Besichtigung in Dresdener Stasi-Objekt] [Ausschnitt]
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Film Archive
[Demonstration in Dresden am 22. Januar 1990; Besichtigung in Dresdener Stasi-Objekt] [Ausschnitt]
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An amateur film document in the midst of the political and social changes that were demanded, desired or feared since the opening of the inner-German border in November 1989. The uncertainty of that time seems to operate the filmmaker’s camera: shot from an awkward angle, trying to get a clear view but inexperienced and as yet unable to create a comprehensive picture, the speakers are to be captured on stage between banners and flags. There, prominent speakers explain their interpretation of the past and, to the enthusiastic applause of their listeners, make demands for the political design of the immediate future.
Konstantin Wiesinger
Konstantin Wiesinger
[Kolloquium Ausstellung „Zeitzeichen. Stationen Bildender Kunst in NRW“ am 11. November 1989 in Leipzig] [Ausschnitt]
Stadtkabinett für Kulturarbeit Leipzig
[Kolloquium Ausstellung „Zeitzeichen. Stationen Bildender Kunst in NRW“ am 11. November 1989 in Leipzig] [Ausschnitt]
On the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a panel of renowned artists and art mediators in the GDR talk about the mutual pervasion of art and society in the GDR and the FRG. Among the panellists are the painters and professors Arno Rink and Wolfgang Mattheuer, both spokesmen for the Leipzig School renowned beyond the borders of the GDR, and Erhard Frommhold, publicist and former chief reader of Verlag der Kunst in Dresden. The interviewees reflect on their own biographies and attempt to give an outlook on the freedom of art under the auspices of the free market.
Konstantin Wiesinger
Konstantin Wiesinger
Brücke über den Strom
Manfred Kern
The border town of Frankfurt on the Oder is portrayed as symbolising central issues of a design of society and the state under socialist auspices.
Brücke über den Strom
Documentary Film
GDR
1969
21 minutes
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Amateurfilmclub Frankfurt an der Oder
Manfred Kern
Detlev Mohr
Manfred Kern
The border town of Frankfurt on the Oder is portrayed as symbolising central issues of a design of society and the state under socialist auspices. The division of labour in the assembly line production at a semiconductor plant testifies to the transformation from agricultural to industrial economy. Anyone living in the GDR was expected, according to its self-conception as a civic collective, to contribute to this progress by a disciplined, committed and, for women, emancipated lifestyle. In foreign policy, the workers’ and peasants’ state stood for reconciliation with its Eastern neighbour, Poland. The collaboration of Polish and German female workers in the semiconductor plant illustrates this mission.
Konstantin Wiesinger
Konstantin Wiesinger
Das Mahnmal
Max Jaap
A documentary solemnity on the occasion of the erection of the Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park.
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DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Max Jaap
Erich Nitzschmann
Ella Ensink
A documentary solemnity on the occasion of the erection of the Soviet Memorial in Treptow Park.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Der lachende Mann
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
One of the most controversial documentaries ever. The core of this film is a long interview with the infamous West German mercenary Siegfried Müller.
The core of this film is a long interview with the infamous West German mercenary Siegfried Müller, supplemented by sequences shot for “Commando 52”. “The Laughing Man” broke new stylistic ground at the time. On the one hand it is regarded as a milestone of GDR film history, but on the other hand its production history and style make it one of the most controversial documentaries ever.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
Der Mann an der Rampe
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
Heynowski and Scheumann buy a complete Waffen-SS uniform (including an Auschwitz badge) from West German militaria dealers.
Heynowski and Scheumann buy a complete Waffen-SS uniform (including an Auschwitz badge) from West German militaria dealers.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Der Weg nach oben
Andrew Thorndike, Karl Gass
A filmic act of state on the first anniversary of the GDR. Peaceful reconstruction on this side, preparations for a new war on the other.
A filmic act of state on the first anniversary of the GDR. Peaceful reconstruction on this side, preparations for a new war on the other.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Fritz Cremer – Schöpfer des Buchenwald-Denkmals
Hugo Hermann
A portrait of the sculptor Fritz Cremer, dominated by his bronze group of figures in memory of the resistance fight in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Fritz Cremer – Schöpfer des Buchenwald-Denkmals
A portrait of the sculptor Fritz Cremer, dominated by his bronze group of figures in memory of the resistance fight in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Ich war ein glücklicher Mensch
Eduard Schreiber
An attempt to understand what made the almost eighty-year-old Tilbert Eckertz hold on to communism. Eckertz worked as a business journalist in the GDR.
Ich war ein glücklicher Mensch
An attempt to understand what made the almost eighty-year-old Tilbert Eckertz hold on to communism. Eckertz worked as a business journalist in the GDR. Raked over the coals as a dissenter again and again he still calls himself a happy person. But the more his life progresses, the less he is able to banish injuries he suffered and inflicted from his self-image.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
Im Namen des Lebens
Alfons Machalz
Documentary film advice on the GDR antifascist culture of remembrance – and how to explain it, for example, to foreign guests.
Documentary film advice on the GDR antifascist culture of remembrance – and how to explain it, for example, to foreign guests.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Imbiß Spezial
Thomas Heise
The period leading up to the political turnaround as it presented itself at a snack bar. Media and reality have less and less to do with each other.
The period leading up to the political turnaround as it presented itself at a snack bar. Media and reality have less and less to do with each other.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
KgU – Kampfgruppe der Unmenschlichkeit
Joachim Hadaschik
The travelling exhibition “Agents, Spies, Saboteurs Exposed” about the actions of FRG spies and infiltrated saboteurs on GDR territory, condensed in a film.
KgU – Kampfgruppe der Unmenschlichkeit
The travelling exhibition “Agents, Spies, Saboteurs Exposed” about the actions of FRG spies and infiltrated saboteurs on GDR territory, condensed in a film.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Kommando 52
Walter Heynowski
A portrait of predominantly West German mercenaries in the Congo. A GDR film. The revelation that the commanders were former Wehrmacht officers, was dismissed as propaganda in the FRG.
A group portrait of mercenaries, predominantly West German men, fighting in the Congo. The revelation that the commanders of the company were former Wehrmacht officers who had learned their craft in the war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and used it with obvious pleasure in the brutal fight against partisans in Africa was lightly dismissed as propaganda in the FRG.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
Märkische Ziegel
Volker Koepp
Spring, 1988. Brick burners speak frankly about their working conditions.
A chronicle of the Brandenburg town of Zehdenick, a snapshot from the spring of 1988. Brickyards have determined the rhythm of this small town and its inhabitants for more than a hundred years. Here, the brick burners speak frankly about their working conditions. Volker Koepp’s film was classified by the Central Film Office as a depressing report about outdated production methods and defeatist contemporaries.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
Nach 900 Tagen
Karl Gass, Joop Huisken
About the construction of Stalinstadt and the Iron Works Combine East.
About the construction of Stalinstadt and the Iron Works Combine East.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Psalm 18
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
A mass in the Church of National Thanksgiving, ordered by the Pinochet government just after the coup in Chile in September 1973.
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Studio H & S Berlin
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
Peter Hellmich
A mass in the Church of National Thanksgiving, ordered by the Pinochet government just after the coup in Chile in September 1973. When the new rulers leave the building, the words from the psalms appear at their back: “They cried unto the Lord but he answered them not. Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.”
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue