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Verriegelte Zeit

Original title: Verriegelte Zeit
Year: 1990
Running time: 94 min.
Country: Germany
Director: Sibylle Schönemann
Cast: Documentary
Music: Tomas Kahane
Cinematography: Thomas Plenert (B&W)
Producer: Alert Film, Deutsche Film (DEFA), Sender Freies Berlin (SFB). Distributor: Zeitgeist Films, ex picturis Filmvertrieb
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: In 1990, workers tore down the border post between East and West Germany at Wartha, built not too long before. It was here in 1985 that director Sibylle Schönemann crossed to the West under a system known as “amnesty”, by which the West bought the freedom of convicted East German criminals. One year previously, Schönemann had applied for an exit visa, which led to a prison sentence for “interfering with state activities”. In this documentary, she returns to the prisons where she was held, and documents her attempts to talk to the people involved in her case, including judges, jury members, prison officers, members of the Stasi secret police, her former boss, Hans Dieter Mäde of the state-run movie studio DEFA, and Wolfgang Vogel, the lawyer who arranged her release to West Germany.

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Verriegelte Zeit

1990

Sibylle Schönemann