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Retrospective 2021
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Educational Attainment of West German Pupils in the 1950s
Jürgen Neven du Mont
Hitler sold badges to come to power? And really six million murdered Jews? A knowledge test among FRG secondary school pupils where it’s actually the parents that fail.
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Educational Attainment of West German Pupils in the 1950s

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Jürgen Neven du Mont
Retrospective 2021
Documentary Film
FRG
1959
44 minutes
German
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None

On 29 April 1959, Hessian Broadcasting transmitted an alarming survey of the Federal German school system. The first of three parts of the report “Focus on Our Youth” investigates the question of what has stuck in the minds of higher form students about Hitler’s and Ulbricht’s Germanies. Hesse under Polish administration? Hitler sold badges to come to power? At least they are about right concerning the number of murdered Jews – that is, the third who could think of anything to say about this at all. One television critic rightly pointed out that this represented the sum total of all parental table talk. But were these parents watching television on 29 April 1959?

Sylvia Görke

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Director
Jürgen Neven du Mont
Cinematographer
Willy Sedler, Bernhard Weber, Günter Seuss
Editor
Hilde Grabow
Producer
HR Hessischer Rundfunk
Sound
Horst Eiteljörge
Retrospective 2023
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Małgorzata Bieńkowska-Buehlmann
Refugees from the GDR in Warsaw, shortly before the fall of the Wall. Emotional fates, unfiltered. The interviews were forgotten and only re-discovered 20 years later.
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Wyjście
Małgorzata Bieńkowska-Buehlmann
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
Poland
1991
29 minutes
Polish,
German

Shortly before the fall of the Wall, tens of thousands of GDR citizens fled to the West, most of them via Hungary. Many ended up stranded in the West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw. Refugees from the GDR were interviewed in Poland, speaking openly and emotionally of their fates. The footage was forgotten and only re-discovered 20 years later.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Małgorzata Bieńkowska-Buehlmann
Cinematographer
Andrzej Adamczak
Editor
Katarzyna Rudnik
Producer
Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych
Sound
Ryszard Krupa