Gerhard Scheumann Movies

  • 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
  • 1987
    Teufelszeug

    Teufelszeug

    Teufelszeug

    01987HD

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

    Teufelszeug
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1967
    Geisterstunde

    Geisterstunde

    Geisterstunde

    01967HD

    An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

    Geisterstunde
  • 1981
    Exercises

    Exercises

    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....

    Exercises
  • 1984
    The Comical Game

    The Comical Game

    The Comical Game

    01984HD

    A card game is introduced: “Nuclear War". An entertaining, jolly card game for between two and six players, reads an ad for a game made in USA.

    The Comical Game
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1978
    The Dead Are Not Silent

    The Dead Are Not Silent

    The Dead Are Not Silent

    01978HD

    Moy de Tohá and Isabel Letelier tell their story. They are the widows of two Defence Ministers of the Unidad Popular, who knew too much.

    The Dead Are Not Silent
  • 1983
    Im Zeichen der Spinne

    Im Zeichen der Spinne

    Im Zeichen der Spinne

    01983HD

    Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad

    Im Zeichen der Spinne
  • 1977
    And Then the First Rice

    And Then the First Rice

    And Then the First Rice

    01977HD

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

    And Then the First Rice
  • 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
  • 1966
    Grüße von Ost nach West

    Grüße von Ost nach West

    Grüße von Ost nach West

    01966HD

    Documentary film

    Grüße von Ost nach West
  • 1978
    Steadfast in Fire

    Steadfast in Fire

    Steadfast in Fire

    01978HD

    Reconstruction of the last hours in the presidential palace La Moneda during the coup d’état in Santiago de Chile in 1973. Salvador...

    Steadfast in Fire
  • 1985
    Hector Cuevas

    Hector Cuevas

    Hector Cuevas

    01985HD

    Documentary film

    Hector Cuevas
  • 1975
    Meier's Legacy

    Meier's Legacy

    Meier's Legacy

    01975HD

    An auction in Munich, 1974, old man with crockery and knick-knacks labelled "Former property of Hermann Göring": relics of Nazism sold to the...

    Meier's Legacy
  • 1967
    400 cm³

    400 cm³

    400 cm³

    01967HD

    GDR anti-Vietnam propaganda film with footage of East Germans donating blood to be sent to the Viet Cong soldiers.

    400 cm³
  • 1967
    Der Zeuge

    Der Zeuge

    Der Zeuge

    01967HD

    Documentary film

    Der Zeuge