Freund und Helfer auf dem Lande

Running time: 1992 | 15' | GER

East Germany was in uniform. The army, the police, battle groups at workplaces, the GST Society for Sport and Technology in schools, civil defence and military training at universities, plus all professions where uniforms were customarily worn made people believe that the country was unsinkable. After the coup in 1990, they just got new uniforms in place of the old ones, and began to serve the new system in place of the old one.

Authors:

  • Jörg Foth

    Born in Berlin in 1949. Graduated from directing at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. In 1977 he started working as assistant director in GDR television, after which he worked for the DEFA film studio in the same capacity, to later become a director of feature films there. In 1985 he also started making documentary films at DEFA. Since 1991 he has been a freelance director. He has directed several dozen feature and documentary films, as well as theatre plays.

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