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- DirectorGerd KroskeAndreas VoigtThe most comprehensive documentation of events surrounding the 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany. The film team finally got the permission of the state-owned film studio to document these historic events on October 16, 1989 and filmed until the fall of the Berlin Wall. With their heavy 35mm camera equipment, they were the only professional team filming in Leipzig. The film includes interviews with demonstrators, members of the citizens' rights movement, officials and bystanders in East Germany's peaceful revolution.
- DirectorSebastian RichterAndreas VoigtA small crew films Leipzig 89-90. They interview factory workers, young people, a former journalist, a Redskin and others. These individuals share their thoughts about the reunification, its consequences and their plans for the future.
- DirectorJürgen BöttcherA documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are news reporters and tourists from all over the world taking pictures, children selling pieces of the wall to passers-by, and people celebrating New Year's Eve, on the other we see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks on their faces.
- DirectorMarilyn LevineRoss McElweeStarsMarilyn LevineRoss McElweeIn 1986, Ross McElwee and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structure was still very much intact as the world's most visible symbol of hardline Communism.
- DirectorWolfgang KisselStarsJohannes R. BecherWolf BiermannMikhail GorbachevUsing almost completely positive clips from East German film archives, this deadpan documentary presents a history of the forty years of the former DDR.
- StarsChristian Steyer"That was the GDR" - a History of the Other Germany. In this documentary, life on the other side of the Berlin Wall is exposed through interviews, archival footage, and propaganda.
- DirectorAndreas VoigtThis film follows some extremely right-wing teenagers in Leipzig, Germany, over a period of one year (1992/1993). It portrays what they think about belief, love and hope as well as about violence and their country.
- DirectorRobert KirkStarsBill RatnerSamuel BurgessEugene GargesHistory of the 1948-1949 Berlin airlift.
- DirectorHans-Hermann HertleGunther ScholzStarsGert HeidenreichMartin SeifertTom VogtA detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down, on a local, national and international level.
- DirectorMarcus VetterStarsPeter Schmidt-VogelDomenico SestaLuigi SpinaA reaction to the erection of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 was the provision of secret routes for East Berliners to escape into freedom in West Berlin. One such was a tunnel that begun construction in early 1962 masterminded by four West Berlin students: civil engineering student Ulrich Pfeifer (called Uli) who was responsible for structural concerns, political science student Hasso Herschel who oversaw construction details and communication with the refugees, steel expert and Italian national Domenico Sesta (called Memo) who was the planner, and art student and fellow Italian national Luigi Spina (called Gigi) who was the leader of the operation. The idea was borne out of a want to help Gigi and Memo's friend Peter Schmidt-Vogel who was despondent about his fate living in East Berlin. Uli and Hasso joined the plan soon after they met Memo and Gigi. Hasso was earlier imprisoned for four years by the East German regime, and joined as an act of revenge against his former captors and to get his younger sister out of East Berlin. Uli earlier escaped from East to West Berlin through the city's sewer system, and like Hasso joined the tunnel group as revenge against the East German regime who imprisoned his girlfriend for seven years for also trying to escape. Initial planning problems included finding a route that was above the consistently high ground water table under the city and in an area of the city where they could build without being suspected of doing so. After locating the section of the city to construct the tunnel, they had to find buildings under which they could start and end the tunnel either without detection or with the assistance of the building owner. Beyond the known concerns for what was now planned as the 165 meter long tunnel, such concerns as providing structural supports, providing air ventilation, disposing of the excavated materials, recruiting laborers sympathetic to the cause, and financing (the latter which was solved in an unconventional manner), they ran into unforeseen problems, such as two burst water pipes flooding the tunnel, and other people they initially did not know finding out about the project. After all was said and done, life, in all its good and bad, went on for those involved.
- DirectorHubertus SiegertStarsGünter BehnischWerner DurthHelmut JahnBerlin after the Wall came down. Observations on radical reconstruction of a city core. Images of the conflict between the thirst for demolition and the hunger for completion.
- DirectorHava Kohav BellerStarsKonrad AdenauerGünter BazyliWolf BiermannDocumentary that examines life and dissent in East Germany from 1949-1989.
- DirectorAudrey MaurionEyal SivanStarsAxel PrahlIn February 1990, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ministry for State Security is dissolved. The end of the Stasi has come.
- DirectorMario SchneiderThe film tells the story of three friends and their long years of drug addiction in a small village of East Germany.
- DirectorChristian GierkeStarsRudolf DanielewiczBerthold DückerJeff MatzkaIt is one of the most heavily secured borders in the world: 800 kilometers of border fence, 400 observation towers, 200 kilometers of minefields. Guarded by 40,000 border guards. No border separating two countries. A border dividing a country. A border in Germany. After the opening of the inner-German border, "Halt. Hier Grenz" undertakes a journey on the traces of the border course. Across Germany, from the border triangle near Hof in the south to Priwall on the Baltic Sea in the north.
- DirectorMarc BauderDörte FrankeStarsDagny DewathAnne DrewathAnne GollinThis intense and very moving documentary features four - out of approximately 250,000 - former political prisoners in East Germany. Nearly twenty years after the fall of the Wall, it is still difficult to answer the questions of their children and friends and come to terms with a very personal and painful past.
- DirectorOliver HalmburgerStarsClayton NemrowAndrew SolomonClifford V. JohnsonFor 28 years, the Berlin Wall split a city and a whole nation. While the notorious dangers frightened many GDR citizens, there were others who tried to overcome it. Families fly across the border in a home-made hot air balloon or swing over the Wall hanging from a makeshift pulley. The Wall still works but Communism is crumbling behind it. Suddenly, the borders are open, and the Wall comes down.
- DirectorStefan WeinertFive stories of the dream of freedom and the soul-crushing methods of the Stasi detention. The five protagonists represent a group of around 72,000 ex-convicts, imprisoned in the GDR for attempting to flee the Republic.
- DirectorMatthias HoferichterDuring the time of the Cold War the border between Western countries and Eastern bloc meant the end of the world. The autumn 20 years later shows a new picture: Fertile landscapes, exotic animals and energetic farmers, trying to heal the wounds of the past. This still makes the regions special and unique. The former no-go areas where life and economy had their own rules are now re-discovered as remarkable nature and cultural landscapes when the Iron Curtain finally opened. The documentary by Matthias Hoferichter goes on an autumn journey along this now green belt from south to north. Here, with hard work and new ideas, farmers are trying to utilize the forbidden areas of the past. While herb farmers in Bulgaria dry and proceed the harvest of the warm summer, the grape gathering is about to start in Hungary. In Germany farmers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania breed endangered farm animals and successfully built a new business with the sale of goat cheese. Autumn slowly becomes winter and while the Estonian cattle on the island Hiiumaa can still enjoy the last green blades of grass in the sun the reindeer in the far north of Finland already walk through snow. Right next to the Russian border the reindeer herders of the indigenious Sami still practise the reindeer breeding just like their ancestors did it centuries ago. But even for them it becomes more and more difficult to live in a traditional way only. The journey along the former border discovers landscapes and people which have experienced a unique history in the shadow of the Iron Curtain and offer the visitor a fascinating view of life before and after the opening of the border.
- DirectorCynthia BeattStarsTilda SwintonPoetic passage through varied landscapes along the former Berlin Wall. Beatt and Swinton re-trace its line 21 years after Cycling the Frame, this time on both sides of the Wall that once isolated West Berlin.
- DirectorBartosz KonopkaThe untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls.
- DirectorMarco WilmsStarsFrank SchäferSabine von OettingenRobert Paris»Comrade Couture« is a journey into the world of the fashionistas and Bohemians of East Berlin in the 80s. A fantasy world within East Germany's restricted everyday life. Director Marco Wilms was himself a model at GDR's fashion institute.
- DirectorMark ByrneRob DennisStarsJonathan BadyHanna BehrendJohn BokCentral Europeans describe life under Communism and offer candid assessments of the transition to freedom, capitalism and democracy in the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- DirectorHeike BachelierEnemy Engagement tells a story from the GDR from three different angles: The dissident writer and his friend who secretly reported to the Stasi, the GDR secret police and was responsible for his imprisonment. 16.000 pages of Stasi files make the third perspective and reveal their own unique light on the story.
- DirectorEric StangeThe Berlin Wall came down in 1989, bringing the reunification of Germany and an end to the Cold War. This documentary revisits the events surrounding the wall's historic collapse. Interviews with George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl offer insight into political maneuvering while firsthand accounts from Germans provide personal perspectives of this historic event that changed the world forever.