Synopsis

The film is due a debt of thanks because it finally recorded what East German Television had been concealing for weeks. In the fall of 1989, as the events in the streets began to snowball, directors Andreas Voigt and Gerd Kroske, along with cameraman Sebastian Richter, not only wanted to document at last the protest on the streets, but also to give voice to the protesters whom the state sought to silence.

Director

• Andreas Voigt
  

  Andreas Voigt was born in 1953. He studied physics in Cracow and, economics and history of economics in Berlin. He then worked as a story editor and writer at the DEFA Documentary Film Studios while taking extramural courses in directing at the Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He was a director and writer at the Documentary Film Studios until 1991. Since then, a freelancer.
  
  Invisible - Illegal in Europe(2004)
  The Big Wide World (1997)
  Ostpreußenland (1995)
  Belief Love Hope(1994)
  Last Year Titanic (1991)
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  Gerd Kroske
  

  Gerd Kroske was born in 1958 in Dessau. In 1980 he became a student of cultural studies and directing at the Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Since 1987, he worked as author and story editor at DEFA Studio for Documentary Films where he also made his directing debut with in 1989. Since 1991, Kroske is working as freelance author and director.
  
  
  Wolli in Paradise (2008)
  Sweep it up, Again (2006)
  The Boxing Prince (2000)
  Sweep It Up, Swig It Down (1997)
  Vokzal Brest Vokzal - Bahnhof Brest (1994)

Credits

• Director  Andreas VOIGT, Gerd KROSKE
• Producer  DEFA Studio Documentary Films
• Wirter  Andreas VOIGT, Gerd KROSKE
• Editor  Manuela BOTHE, Karin SCHONING

Production Company

• Production Company  DEFA

Distributor/World Sales

• Distributor/World Sales  PROGRESS Film-Verleih GmbH
• Address  Ernst-Augustin-Str. 5, P1/UG; D-12489 Berilin, Germany
• Tel  49 30 67 89 48 65
• Fax  49 30 67 89 51 96
• E-mail  d.bingel@progress-film.de