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 free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...
In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film ...
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...
25 years after Erich Honecker's death, his personal secretary in Chile gives MDR an exclusive insigh...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...
Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that ...
Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East German...
A documentary spy thriller that takes place during the Cold War but which gets its resolution today ...
Daniel lives in Bernau, a small town north of Berlin.This film tells this 21-year-old’s story and de...
While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from ...
In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster resea...
With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operatio...
A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve ...
Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in t...
Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East German...