Gerhard Scheumann Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Hint from a Neighbor

    Hint from a Neighbor

    Hint from a Neighbor

    01966HD

    A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remarks on the Oberhausen 66 Film Festival,"...

    Hint from a Neighbor
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
    Geisterstunde

    Geisterstunde

    Geisterstunde

    01967HD

    An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

    Geisterstunde
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1967
    Der Zeuge

    Der Zeuge

    Der Zeuge

    01967HD

    Documentary film

    Der Zeuge
  • 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