Gerhard Scheumann Movies

  • 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
  • 1966
    P.S. to The Laughing Man

    P.S. to The Laughing Man

    P.S. to The Laughing Man

    51966HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1970
    The Man Without a Past

    The Man Without a Past

    The Man Without a Past

    01970HD

    Horst Rudolf Überlacker is a young lawyer at the beginning of a promising career. At the end of the Second World War he was nine years old, but...

    The Man Without a Past
  • 1971
    100

    100

    100

    01971HD

    Push-ups to the rhythm of a metronome, a meter counting backward from 100; three words are shouted time and again: “dog – pig –...

    100
  • 1966
    Ehrenmänner

    Ehrenmänner

    Ehrenmänner

    01966HD

    In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

    Ehrenmänner
  • 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
  • 1985
    Hector Cuevas

    Hector Cuevas

    Hector Cuevas

    01985HD

    Documentary film

    Hector Cuevas
  • 1986
    Snapshots From Chile

    Snapshots From Chile

    Snapshots From Chile

    01986HD

    Chile 1985, the repression of the Chilean people by the dictatorship and the resistance, accompanied by the music of the exiled composer Angel Parra.

    Snapshots From Chile
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1965
    O.K.

    O.K.

    O.K.

    5.11965HD

    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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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