The Rise And Fall of the Wall – The Cinema of East Germany
People’s Police Force
Volkspolizei
Thomas Heise
1985 • German Democratic Republic • 61’
First of May, 1985: Thomas Heise documents the everyday life of the Volkspolizei (People’s Police Force) in Berlin Mitte in a station lying right beside the Wall. By collecting facts and figures and describing the rules of patrolling and searching, he records the work of those who guarantee socialist order. “This movie was blocked after its completion as well, and it was reconstructed in Beta Digital and broadcast on TV only in 2001”. (Thomas Heise)
Screened with
21-10-2019
15:30 • DDR • 94’
Cinemateca 15:30 • DDR • 94’
Sala M. Félix Ribeiro