Former heads, senior officers and the rector of the MfS law school explain how the ministry functioned. The interviewees see themselves as legitimate actors with a clear mandate and political enemy image. They provide an insight into the techniques and routines of secret service work, psychological tricks during interrogations and the management of “unofficial collaborators”. What they all have in common is that they are not aware of any moral guilt. The directors contrast their footage of prisons and archives with the statements of former Stasi employees in an attempt to expose their evasions and efforts at suppression.
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and ...
Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...
From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of sub...
In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...
At the end of the GDR existence, around 8,000 children and young people were so-called "unofficial e...
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...
Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...
Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in t...
In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster resea...
On October 18, 1989, the SED Central Committee confirms the dismissal of Erich Honecker. The documen...
Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East German...
Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East German...
A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve ...