The Last Summer of the GDR: Freedom and Anarchy

Wall of Chaos

December 2021 •Italian

Whispers of Freedom

November 2024 •English

When Chris Gueffroy becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life in 1980s East Germany, he hatches a plan with his friend, Christian Gaudian, to escape the isolated Eastern bloc state without telling his mother, Karin. The pair believe that the standing order to shoot anyone who crosses the Berlin Wall, as ordered by the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, Erich Honecker, has been lifted due to the state visit of Swedish PM Ingvar Carlsson. The young men seize their chance and attempt the fateful escape to the west.

Wir Ostdeutsche - 30 Jahre im vereinten Land

September 2020 •German

Erzähle deine Geschichte - Die DDR in 30 Begriffen

October 2020 •German

Wem gehört der Osten - Die großen Deals der Einheit

January 2017 •German

La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden

January 1976 •German

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the Unidad Popular during Salvador Allende's reign. Festival guests comment on this work. Music by Chilean music group Jaspampa, formed in Leipzig in 1972.

Reunification in the Ice: The Story of the Last GDR Antarctic Explorers

October 2020 •German

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they returned in the spring of 1991, their homeland was a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.

Poker um die Deutsche Einheit - Wurde Russland in der NATO-Frage getäuscht?

July 2015 •German

Erzähle Deine Geschichte - Vom Mauerfall bis heute

October 2020 •German

Der größte Geldtransport der Geschichte - Wie die D-Mark in den Osten kam

June 2020 •German

Verliebt, verlobt, verloren

June 2015 •German

OstPunk! Too much Future

January 2006 •German

Tells the story of punk in the GDR.

An deutschen Tischen

October 2000 •German

Documentation about the intra-German relations after the reunification.

Countdown To 1990 : La Réunification de l'Allemagne

January 2020 •French

Comrade Couture

February 2009 •German

This film undertakes a journey into the amazing parallel universe of East Berlin’s fashion designers and experts in the art of survival. For, in the midst of the constraints of life in the GDR, there existed a fantasy world where it was possible to dance to another tune, be individual and even provocative. The most important characteristic of this bohemian scene was one’s per- sonal style. But this certainly wasn’t something that could be bought off the peg in the GDR. In this parallel universe it was up to you to create your own individual image – with your own hands. This film tells the story of the desires, the passion and the dreams that were tried and tested, lived and performed in the shadow of the Berlin Wall.

Karl Marx City

January 2017 •German

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East Germany, as Epperlein investigates her father’s 1999 suicide and the possibility that he may have worked as a spy for the dreaded Stasi security service.

Die Kinder sind tot

March 2004 •English

A documentary exploring a crime that shocked Germany in the summer of 1999.

The Silent Revolution

March 2018 •German

Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.

Das Ist Nicht Amerika.

May 2023 •English

East-Germany, 1990. The first summer after Germany's reunification and Olli is eager to explore this new freedom. But for someone who has never left his small village in East Germany, he has high expectations. On top of that, he is not the brightest candle on the cake. So when he's suddenly convinced that the glorious US is just a stone throw away, across the lake, his sister Peggy knows not to stop her brother but rather see where this adventure might lead them. And to Peggy's surprise New York's subway is closer than she thought.

Sternenklar

April 2022 •English

East-Berlin, 1980. Two sisters, one professional fleeing assistant and one soldier. And an escape that could go either way...