Gerhard Scheumann Movies

Images of the romantic city and tourist leaflets are burning – the vision of possible destruction.

Together with Stephan Hermlin, H&S examine two five-minute film documents in this film, which were shot in 1941 on behalf of the Gestapo. The...

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

Documentary film

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...

The Pol Pot regime wanted to erase the 2000 year-old culture of Cambodia. Schools were destroyed, teachers and pupils kidnapped, tortured and killed....

Protests in Hasselbach in the Hunsrück Mountains against the deployment of 96 Cruise Missiles.

Homelessness in New York. Interviews with those affected. An architect from San Francisco comes up with the idea of building the so-called "City...

Documentary film

An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

GDR anti-Vietnam propaganda film with footage of East Germans donating blood to be sent to the Viet Cong soldiers.

In 1972 the funeral service is held for the deceased tycoon Friedrich Flick. It marks the beginning of the dismantling of a legend.

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...

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...

Scenes of everyday life in South Africa which give an idea of the daily racism in this country.

A service is ordered by the Junta in praise of the Junta. The Cardinal, forced to utter Benedictions, resorts to words for all those who suffer and...