Gerhard Scheumann

The Third Skin

A flat as a human basic right and need; that is what Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Secretary General of the United N...

I Was, I Am, I Will Be

In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chanc...

Pilots in Pajamas

Produced by DEFA and broadcast in four parts in 1968, this documentary series consists of extended interviews w...

Amok

The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the hi...

Remington Cal. 12

This bullet is stamped with the inscription 'Remington Peters 12' and yet is not mentioned in Remington's catal...

Meier's Legacy

An auction in Munich, 1974, old man with crockery and knick-knacks labelled "Former property of Hermann Göring"...

The Angkar

The Khmer word “angkar” signifies “organization”. The angkar of the Pol-Pot regime acted upon their own, unwrit...

Phoenix

The goal of the American operation "Phoenix" in Vietnam was to destroy all the bases of the liberation struggle...

O.K.

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to Wes...

The Dead Are Not Silent

Moy de Tohá and Isabel Letelier tell their story. They are the widows of two Defence Ministers of the Unidad Po...

The Iron Fortress

Weeks after the victory in Vietnam, first pictures of a new humanity are captured: old and sick people preparin...

The White Coup

At the parliamentary elections that the Unidad Popular won, there were activities to overthrow Salvador Allende...

I Sincerely Repent

Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly afte...

The Man Who Met the Trains

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according...

Ehrenmänner

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, Eas...

The Comical Game

A card game is introduced: “Nuclear War". An entertaining, jolly card game for between two and six players, rea...

Geldsorgen

Short film about General Eduardo Cano, who after the military coup became director of the Chilean central bank...

Grüße von Ost nach West

Documentary film

At the Ditch

My Lai ten years after the massacre. Reconstruction of the crime at the place where it was committed; tracing t...

Hector Cuevas

Bye-Bye Wheelus

Wheelus Air Base was once the largest American air base outside the USA itself. Ordered to be cleared by June 3...

And Then the First Rice

Stories from the first summer after the end of the war in Vietnam

The Man Without a Past

Horst Rudolf Überlacker is a young lawyer at the beginning of a promising career. At the end of the Second Worl...

The President in Exile

The President Dr. Walter Becher, officially the spokesman for the Sudeten German Homeland Association, called o...

Die fernen Freunde nah

Report on a trip of Vietnamese guests to the GDR to attend the premiere of the documentary film „The Iron Fortr...

The War of the Mummies

The country is portrayed before and after the storm of the military to the government palace “La Moneda” when S...

Hint from a Neighbor

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remark...

One Minute of Darkness Does Not Blind Us

This documentary deals with the coup d'état of general Pinochet in Chile 1975 and its immediate aftermath: the...

Fly, Red Butterfly

Dialogue between children from Kampuchea who talk about their terrible experiences during the Pol Pot regime an...

Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung

At a Bach concert, a letter is read aloud in which the legation council of the Federal Republic of Germany trie...