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.

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of sub...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunificati...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East Germa...

Berlin, summer 1988: While Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd perform in the West, East Berliners can lo...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

In the early summer of 1990, the Treuhandanstalt was founded to privatize the "state-owned" companie...

Was my father really a spy, as his file in the former East German Secret Service (STASI) suggests? T...
The documentary tells the story of the reunification from the perspective of six teenagers from East...

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...
At the end of the GDR existence, around 8,000 children and young people were so-called "unofficial e...

Germany in the summer of 1961 - the "Iron Curtain" divides the country. Only in Berlin is the border...