The Black Star
A cinema-verité documentary of Ghana’s five years of independence under President Kwame Nkruma. Striking color images of Africans in modern-day jobs, such as airline pilot and construction worker, predominate, with little voice-over.
Casts & Crew
Helmut Müller-Lankow
Narrator (voice)
Klaus Piontek
Narrator (voice)
Also Directed by Joachim Hellwig
east german documentary about the world of tomorrow.
The futuristically trendy moderator Chris Wallasch leads the viewer through this program exploring what love might look like in 2002. Passengers at the Berlin-Schönefeld airport are questioned about how they imagine life in thirty years. These interviews are surrounded by a clever and colorful potpourri of flashbacks and flashforwards dealing with the timeless issues of relationships and family.
A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.
The film documents the well-known story of Anne Frank, whose family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Eventually caught, Frank was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she later died. The film goes on to explore the concentration camp in detail, the procedures and methods of the camp's commanding officers, and the atrocities the Nazis committed. Shockingly, many of the officers went on to retain their freedom, and lead relatively normal lives, often receiving support from the German government.
A defa futurum short film.
DEFA documentary in honor of the 750th birthday of the city of Berlin.
