09 Oct 2025
Pride & Attitude
The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR-FRG. Courageous, self-confident and emancipated: female industry workers talk about gaining autonomy.
Es lebe die R...
In interviews, several important GDR personalities and also GDR citizens comment on the events of October 1989.
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