09 Nov 2014
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
Filmed in Berlin, July 1990. Images of workers taking down the wall and street peddlers selling pieces of it to make a living.
Wasteland
A long-term observation of the forgotten former “Gestapo grounds” in Berlin 1986-2013.
Top Billed Cast
Peter Zumthor Self
Horst Köhler Self
Ignatz Bubis Self (archive footage)
Hanna-Renate Laurien Self (archive footage)
Michael Wildt Self
Andreas Nachama Self
Dieter Hoffman-Axthelm Self
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