
2021
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.

Véronique Augereau
Narrator (voice)

Walter Ulbricht
Self (archive footage)

Karl Alich
Self

Günther Grässler
Self

Helmut Müller-Enbergs
Self

Erich Mielke
Self (archive footage)

Bernd Roth
Self

Günter Pelzl
Self

Manfred Springer
Self

Christian Booß
Self

Erich Honecker
Self (archive footage)

Tatjana Sterneberg
Self

Siegfried Reiprich
Self

Wolf Biermann
Self (archive footage)

Stefan Trobisch-Lütge
Self

Angela Marquardt
Self

Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)

Verliebt, verlobt, verloren

Night and Fog

Schwerter zu Pflugscharen

Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker

Großes Kino made in DDR

The Open Secret

Eastern Cross

Backwoods

The Look of Silence

Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man, Entertainer & Activist

Yugoslav Secret Services

Unity SPD – KPD

Mario y los perros

Anna Goldin, the Last Witch

Surviving Syria’s Prisons

The Ministry for State Security - Everyday life at a public authority

Kati: A Freestyle That Stays

Ring of the Nibelungs

Cannibal Island

These Heathen Dreams