This portrait shows Black cartoonist Oliver Harrington from New York, who fled to the GDR. For his political drawings, he drew on worldly anecdotes and his love of storytelling. Director Hans Hattop later taught videography at the University of Film and Television.
In interviews, several important GDR personalities and also GDR citizens comment on the events of October 1989.
Short film about foreign affairs
A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert.
Gitti lives in Berlin. She's single and decides to put an ad in the personal to find her perfect man. She gets a lot of responses, however she is quite choosy.
Student film depicting recess at a grade school.
Student film about hiding Jews during the Second World War.
Short student film about a latchkey child in the GDR.
A documentary portrait of the everyday life of teenagers in Mecklenburg.
Short documentary
A chronicle of the events in Dresden in the fall of 1989, which began on October 4 with the passage of refugee trains from Prague and the associated riots. Among many others, a doctor who describes the injuries of police officers and demonstrators, young demonstrators who were arrested and a couple whose son disappeared have their say.
Rainer Burmeister (director) tells a story about everyday working life of 46 young Mozambican people in the GDR who were employed as contract workers. Among them is 20-year-old Luisa, who worked in the mining industry and, like the others, is now training to be a craftswoman.
The film tells the story of Hans and Peter, who protested in the Johannesburg ghetto in 1976. There, they witnessed the murder of 300 black pupils and students by racist police forces. The film allows them to talk about what happened.
