Movies: Gerhard Scheumann

  • 1989
    The Man Who Met the Trains

    The Man Who Met the Trains (1989)

    The Man Who Met the Trains

    01989HD

    A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems it a triumph. Militaria dealers market all the components for a do-it-yourself SS officer. The film as...

    The Man Who Met the Trains
  • 1988
    Die Lüge und der Tod

    Die Lüge und der Tod (1988)

    Die Lüge und der Tod

    01988HD

    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 comparison with a written eyewitness account exposes the first film - "about the dazzling supply of food to ...

    Die Lüge und der Tod
  • 1991
    City-Sleeper

    City-Sleeper (1991)

    City-Sleeper

    01991HD

    Homelessness in New York. Interviews with those affected. An architect from San Francisco comes up with the idea of building the so-called "City Sleeper" - a housing container. Couldn't the City Sleeper also be used for the homeless of the Federal Re...

    City-Sleeper
  • 1975
    Geldsorgen

    Geldsorgen (1975)

    Geldsorgen

    01975HD

    Short film about General Eduardo Cano, who after the military coup became director of the Chilean central bank in the Pinochet dictatorship. Cano withdraws money from the circulation, which were described by opposition parties with resistance piles. ...

    Geldsorgen
  • 1978
    At the Ditch

    At the Ditch (1978)

    At the Ditch

    01978HD

    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 USA; description of what happened by people who were believed to be dead....

    At the Ditch
  • 1981
    Exercises

    Exercises (1981)

    Exercises

    01981HD

    The Pol Pot regime wanted to erase the 2000 year-old culture of Cambodia. Schools were destroyed, teachers and pupils kidnapped, tortured and killed. In September 1980, the School of Fine Arts reopens in Phnom Penh, in March 1981, there are 110 pupil...

    Exercises
  • 1983
    For Example Regensburg

    For Example Regensburg (1983)

    For Example Regensburg

    01983HD

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

    For Example Regensburg
  • 1979
    Die fernen Freunde nah

    Die fernen Freunde nah (1979)

    Die fernen Freunde nah

    01979HD

    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 Vietnam War....

    Die fernen Freunde nah
  • 1991
    Walter Hunger - A German Résumé

    Walter Hunger - A German Résumé (1991)

    Walter Hunger - A German Résumé

    01991HD

    Portrait of the industrialist Walter Hunger from Frankenberg in Saxony. He left the German Democratic Republic in 1958 with his family and closest colleagues to build up one the most significant hydraulics enterprises in the Federal Republic of Germa...

    Walter Hunger - A German Résumé
  • 1986
    Snapshots From Chile

    Snapshots From Chile (1986)

    Snapshots From Chile

    01986HD

    Chile 1985, the repression of the Chilean people by the dictatorship and the resistance, accompanied by the music of the exiled composer Angel Parra....

    Snapshots From Chile
  • 1977
    And Then the First Rice

    And Then the First Rice (1977)

    And Then the First Rice

    01977HD

    Stories from the first summer after the end of the war in Vietnam...

    And Then the First Rice
  • 1983
    Aparte Bilder

    Aparte Bilder (1983)

    Aparte Bilder

    01983HD

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

    Aparte Bilder
  • 1987
    Teufelszeug

    Teufelszeug (1987)

    Teufelszeug

    01987HD

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

    Teufelszeug
  • 1965
    O.K.

    O.K. (1965)

    O.K.

    5.11965HD

    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 interview tells the story of her individual fate in a divided Germany....

    O.K.
  • 1966
    Grüße von Ost nach West

    Grüße von Ost nach West (1966)

    Grüße von Ost nach West

    01966HD

    Documentary film...

    Grüße von Ost nach West
  • 1972
    Remington Cal. 12

    Remington Cal. 12 (1972)

    Remington Cal. 12

    01972HD

    This bullet is stamped with the inscription 'Remington Peters 12' and yet is not mentioned in Remington's catalogue. It consists of 20 small steel arrows....

    Remington Cal. 12