15 May 2023
DGSI, la maison du secret
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I Love You All
A film on the surveillance and the control in East Germany also speaks about it - representing extreme and almost unbelievable image of a society which has acquired one super-narrative and developed a system which makes it impossible to even speak about the possibility of anything outside it.
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Axel Prahl Narrator (Major S.)
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