Gerhard Scheumann Movies

  • 1976
    One Minute of Darkness Does Not Blind Us

    One Minute of Darkness Does Not Blind Us

    One Minute of Darkness Does Not Blind Us

    01976HD

    This documentary deals with the coup d'état of general Pinochet in Chile 1975 and its immediate aftermath: the harsh repression of left-wing...

    One Minute of Darkness Does Not Blind Us
  • 1985
    Amok

    Amok

    Amok

    01985HD

    The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the history of the USA at that point of...

    Amok
  • 1981
    The Angkar

    The Angkar

    The Angkar

    01981HD

    The Khmer word “angkar” signifies “organization”. The angkar of the Pol-Pot regime acted upon their own, unwritten laws....

    The Angkar
  • 1966
    The Laughing Man

    The Laughing Man

    The Laughing Man

    6.81966HD

    Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

    The Laughing Man
  • 1977
    The Iron Fortress

    The Iron Fortress

    The Iron Fortress

    01977HD

    Weeks after the victory in Vietnam, first pictures of a new humanity are captured: old and sick people preparing for their future, children on their...

    The Iron Fortress
  • 1974
    I Was, I Am, I Will Be

    I Was, I Am, I Will Be

    I Was, I Am, I Will Be

    6.81974HD

    In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large...

    I Was, I Am, I Will Be
  • 1974
    The War of the Mummies

    The War of the Mummies

    The War of the Mummies

    01974HD

    The country is portrayed before and after the storm of the military to the government palace “La Moneda” when Salvador Allende is killed...

    The War of the Mummies
  • 1987
    Der springende Punkt

    Der springende Punkt

    Der springende Punkt

    01987HD

    Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

    Der springende Punkt
  • 1974
    Mitbürger

    Mitbürger

    Mitbürger

    01974HD

    Salvador Allende’s last radio speech is given in full; nothing is interposed. The translation of the speech appears in subtitles, individual...

    Mitbürger
  • 1979
    Die fernen Freunde nah

    Die fernen Freunde nah

    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...

    Die fernen Freunde nah
  • 1975
    The White Coup

    The White Coup

    The White Coup

    01975HD

    At the parliamentary elections that the Unidad Popular won, there were activities to overthrow Salvador Allende. By a white, supposedly clean coup,...

    The White Coup
  • 1977
    I Sincerely Repent

    I Sincerely Repent

    I Sincerely Repent

    01977HD

    Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.

    I Sincerely Repent
  • 1969
    The President in Exile

    The President in Exile

    The President in Exile

    01969HD

    The President Dr. Walter Becher, officially the spokesman for the Sudeten German Homeland Association, called out the old flags, as he does every...

    The President in Exile
  • 1979
    Phoenix

    Phoenix

    Phoenix

    01979HD

    The goal of the American operation "Phoenix" in Vietnam was to destroy all the bases of the liberation struggle. K. Barton Osborn, a former "Phoenix"...

    Phoenix
  • 1971
    Bye-Bye Wheelus

    Bye-Bye Wheelus

    Bye-Bye Wheelus

    01971HD

    Wheelus Air Base was once the largest American air base outside the USA itself. Ordered to be cleared by June 30th, 1970 by Libya’s...

    Bye-Bye Wheelus
  • 1988
    Kamerad Krüger

    Kamerad Krüger

    Kamerad Krüger

    51988HD

    SS officer Walter Krüger talks about his career. Now he is Secretary of the „Kameradschaftsverband I. Panzerkorps der ehemaligen Waffen-SS...

    Kamerad Krüger
  • 1975
    Geldsorgen

    Geldsorgen

    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...

    Geldsorgen
  • 1989
    The Man Who Met the Trains

    The Man Who Met the Trains

    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...

    The Man Who Met the Trains
  • 1979
    A Refugee from Vietnam

    A Refugee from Vietnam

    A Refugee from Vietnam

    01979HD

    After becoming notorious world-wide for a bloody killing, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, former general and chief of the South Vietnamese police, moved to the...

    A Refugee from Vietnam
  • 1966
    P.S. to The Laughing Man

    P.S. to The Laughing Man

    P.S. to The Laughing Man

    4.751966HD

    The epilogue to the film "The Laughing Man" (1966), which alternates between objectivity and anger, exposes the involvement of the West German...

    P.S. to The Laughing Man