The Man Without a Past

The Man Without a Past 1970

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Horst Rudolf Überlacker is a young lawyer at the beginning of a promising career. At the end of the Second World War he was nine years old, but his present statements can be considered "agitation threatening peace". The Spokesman of the Sudeten German Association, Dr. Becher lauds "the young political talent" who performs the generational change from old Fascists to neo-Nazis.

1970

Teufelszeug

Teufelszeug 1987

1

Protests in Hasselbach in the Hunsrück Mountains against the deployment of 96 Cruise Missiles.

1987

Bye-Bye Wheelus

Bye-Bye Wheelus 1971

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Wheelus Air Base was once the largest American air base outside the USA itself. Ordered to be cleared by June 30th, 1970 by Libya’s Revolutionary Command Council.

1971

The President in Exile

The President in Exile 1969

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The President Dr. Walter Becher, officially the spokesman for the Sudeten German Homeland Association, called out the old flags, as he does every year.

1969

Meier's Legacy

Meier's Legacy 1975

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An auction in Munich, 1974, old man with crockery and knick-knacks labelled "Former property of Hermann Göring": relics of Nazism sold to the benefit of the post-war state: the west criticised by the east.

1975

One Minute of Darkness Does Not Blind Us

One Minute of Darkness Does Not Blind Us 1976

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This documentary deals with the coup d'état of general Pinochet in Chile 1975 and its immediate aftermath: the harsh repression of left-wing intellectuals, artist and workers.

1976

Der springende Punkt

Der springende Punkt 1987

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Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of modern nuclear missiles. Together the images are a silent warning of armament and war.

1987

I Was, I Am, I Will Be

I Was, I Am, I Will Be 1974

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In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the country - Chacabuco and Pisagua - leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings.

1974

The Iron Fortress

The Iron Fortress 1977

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Weeks after the victory in Vietnam, first pictures of a new humanity are captured: old and sick people preparing for their future, children on their way to school.

1977

The Dead Are Not Silent

The Dead Are Not Silent 1978

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Moy de Tohá and Isabel Letelier tell their story. They are the widows of two Defence Ministers of the Unidad Popular, who knew too much.

1978

Die fernen Freunde nah

Die fernen Freunde nah 1979

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Report on a trip of Vietnamese guests to the GDR to attend the premiere of the documentary film „The Iron Fortress“ about the history of the Vietnam War.

1979

Der Dschungelkrieg

Der Dschungelkrieg 1983

1

Report on the conflicts around the People's Republic of Kampuchea

1983

Steadfast in Fire

Steadfast in Fire 1978

1

Reconstruction of the last hours in the presidential palace La Moneda during the coup d’état in Santiago de Chile in 1973. Salvador Allende enters his office on September 11th at 7.30 in the morning. In the early afternoon he leaves it – wrapped in a blanket, dead.

1978

Kampuchea: Death and Resurrection

Kampuchea: Death and Resurrection 1980

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The scenes filmed during spring 1979 in Kampuchea/Cambodia are part of history: a metropolis left to rampant nature, skull heaps, destroyed faces and cultural landscapes. The reports of the survivors – farmers, states men, teachers and former soldiers - are moving and harrowing.

1980

I Sincerely Repent

I Sincerely Repent 1977

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Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.

1977

At the Ditch

At the Ditch 1978

1

My Lai ten years after the massacre. Reconstruction of the crime at the place where it was committed; tracing the trail of squad leader Calley in the USA; description of what happened by people who were believed to be dead.

1978

Kamerad Krüger

Kamerad Krüger 1988

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SS officer Walter Krüger talks about his career. Now he is Secretary of the „Kameradschaftsverband I. Panzerkorps der ehemaligen Waffen-SS e.V.” (Fellowship of Former Soldiers of Waffen SS 1st Tank Corps). During the interview it shows that Krüger still considers himself and his like-minded fellows to be the elite of the nation.

1988

The Angkar

The Angkar 1981

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The Khmer word “angkar” signifies “organization”. The angkar of the Pol-Pot regime acted upon their own, unwritten laws. Records were discovered in the central interrogation and extermination camp “S21”, the former high school Tuol Sleng in Phnom Penh that document the death of 20.000 people.

1981

Phoenix

Phoenix 1979

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The goal of the American operation "Phoenix" in Vietnam was to destroy all the bases of the liberation struggle. K. Barton Osborn, a former "Phoenix" officer, who publicly disassociated himself from it, talks about his experiences as a CIA agent. They are confirmed by the statements of General Bui Van Nhu, the last chief of the South Vietnamese police

1979