The Open Secret (2022)
• May 27th, 2022 • 0h 30min
Documentary
Overview
A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Police (the 'Stasi') within East German society. The film is based upon key findings from an extensive research project, 'Knowing the Secret Police', and reflects upon how different kinds of knowledge were circulated through social, religious, political and literary networks within the former GDR. The filmmakers present this research with footage filmed at key locations throughout East Berlin and the wider surrounding landscape, including the Stasi archives and former HQ, Karl-Marx-Allee, Volkspark Friedrichshain, rural 'dacha' cabins, the urban neighbourhood of Prenzlauerberg and the social housing estates of Marzahn.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Nicaragua Part 1: Voyages
Released on: 1985-10-14
Documentary
Composed of stills by renowned Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas taken in 1978 and 1979 during the ...
Fahrenheit 9/11
Released on: 2004-06-25
Documentary
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...
The Spectre of Marxism
Released on: 1983-10-15
History, Documentary
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
untitled minneapolis project
Released on: 2025-05-16
Documentary
A homeless man living in a encampment in Minneapolis tells his perspective on the ongoing crisis of ...
Hungarian Retro 2.
Released on: 2014-01-23
Documentary
A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like ...
Meeting Snowden
Released on: 2017-04-19
Documentary
Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the fir...
The Red Elvis
Released on: 2007-02-13
Documentary
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Exposed
Released on: 2001-01-01
Documentary
Alex Jones interviews Walter Burien, commodity trading adviser (CTA) of 15 years about the biggest g...
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
Released on: 2020-12-12
Documentary, History, TV Movie
TRANSIT
Released on: 2010-09-30
Documentary
In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Ger...
The Dawsonians
Released on:
Documentary, War
During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Un...
Uferfrauen - Lesbian Life and Love in the GDR
Released on: 2020-09-03
Documentary
Portraits six lesbian protagonists from rural and metropolitan parts of the formerly socialist Repub...
Im Osten geht die Sonne auf
Released on: 2001-12-01
Documentary, TV Movie
Energie Cottbus, a small soccer club from the periphery of the republic, got promoted to the first d...
Stasi, un État contre son peuple
Released on: 2021-10-03
Documentary, TV Movie
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...
The First Year
Released on: 2021-11-18
Documentary
The First Year tells the inside story of Jamie Driscoll’s first 12 months as the new North of Tyne M...
Grenze
Released on: 2004-08-03
Documentary
In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citize...
British Sounds
Released on: 1970-05-21
Documentary
Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals...
Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance
Released on: 2020-03-11
Documentary
Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race...