Gerhard Scheumann

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remarks on the Oberhausen 66 Film Festival,"...

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...

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...

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

This bullet is stamped with the inscription 'Remington Peters 12' and yet is not mentioned in Remington's catalogue. It consists of 20 small steel...

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

Documentary film

At a Bach concert, a letter is read aloud in which the legation council of the Federal Republic of Germany tries to poach the musicians of the...

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

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...

A card game is introduced: “Nuclear War". An entertaining, jolly card game for between two and six players, reads an ad for a game made in USA.

Documentary film

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"...

Dialogue between children from Kampuchea who talk about their terrible experiences during the Pol Pot regime and pupils from Erfurt, Arnstadt and...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to West Germany and came back. This film...

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...

At the parliamentary elections that the Unidad Popular won, there were activities to overthrow Salvador Allende. By a white, supposedly clean coup,...

The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the history of the USA at that point of...

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

An auction in Munich, 1974, old man with crockery and knick-knacks labelled "Former property of Hermann Göring": relics of Nazism sold to the...

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems...