Gerhard Scheumann Movies

  • 1978
    At the Ditch

    At the Ditch

    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...

    At the Ditch
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1974
    Psalm 18

    Psalm 18

    Psalm 18

    01974HD

    A service is ordered by the Junta in praise of the Junta. The Cardinal, forced to utter Benedictions, resorts to words for all those who suffer and...

    Psalm 18
  • 1976
    Devil's Island

    Devil's Island

    Devil's Island

    01976HD

    Le Quang Vinh, a revolutionary student leader, was arrested in Saigon in August 1961. A show trial and death sentence followed. World-wide protests...

    Devil's Island
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1967
    Der Fall Bernd K.

    Der Fall Bernd K.

    Der Fall Bernd K.

    01967HD

    Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation

    Der Fall Bernd K.
  • 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
  • 1983
    A Pillar In The Stream

    A Pillar In The Stream

    A Pillar In The Stream

    01983HD

    The story of communist Walter Zauner who in 1952 was one of the first in the Federal Republic to be convicted of sabotage of a military installation.

    A Pillar In The Stream
  • 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
  • 1972
    Remington Cal. 12

    Remington Cal. 12

    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...

    Remington Cal. 12
  • 1965
    O.K.

    O.K.

    O.K.

    5.1251965HD

    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...

    O.K.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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