Survivors can also be victims in countries where injustice was the norm. Their compelling testimonies are featured in this insightful documentary.
Sag mir, wo du stehst
2011
30min
16+
The statements of former inmates of the Hohenschönhausen Stasi prison and former Stasi employees are contrasted here.
Paths in the Night
1999
1h.33min
16+
A haunting psychogram of an entire generation of ex-GDR citizens who have not yet fully accepted that they now live in the Federal Republic of Germany
Duerer’s Heirs
1996
58min
16+
A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.
The painter of the strange country …
1988
42min
16+
A portrait of the artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib who left the GDR for West Berlin between 1984 and 1985.
GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon
1984
22min
16+
In 1984, a group of artists occupied an exhibition center in Leipzig.
The GDR Complex
2016
1h.30min
16+
The moving life story of Mario Röllig, who fell in love with a gay West German politician in the mid-80s and was imprisoned for it.
Omulaule Means Black
2003
1h.5min
16+
The largely unknown story of the GDR contract workers from Namibia.
Mit dem Wort Wende
2009
3min
16+
Filmmaker Juliane Henrich explores the term "Wende" (course change) by means of a speech by Christa Wolf, which she gave shortly before the fall of the ...
