Sounds like an interesting and sad project to be involved in ,did you have to do much research into it or was the tragic story fairly well known .I always think it's important to remember these victims of the system.
The story is fairly well known, but research for this kind of project is pretty granular in detail, especially as the makers wanted input on world-building in particular.
As you say Katja, a tragedy. And an indictment of Honecker et al. Perhaps the temporal proximity to the end of the DDR adds piquancy. A sad read with my Sunday morning coffee.
Such a sad story, like that of all those who died in wars the day before they ended. And such an indictment of a system in which so many people once placed such hopes.
I think they are hoping it will be, but it appears to be more difficult with short films like this one. It's making the rounds on the short film festival circuit, though.
This sounds very interesting. What a brutal reprisal against this poor guy. Did the guards on the Wall generally just blend back into German life after the collapse of the Wall Katja? What level of accountability was there (if any)?
They had no way of knowing what was going to happen. No East German I have ever spoken to said they were able to predict that the wall was going to fall. Plus, they were both very young. They probably thought this wouldn't happen to them. I spoke to a man in Dresden this week who said "we were all pretty fearless as young people in the 1980s. The regime appeared weak and increasingly powerless."
I’m glad Chris’s story is being shared to remind everyone what’s at stake in the war of freedom vs. repression.
Sounds like an interesting and sad project to be involved in ,did you have to do much research into it or was the tragic story fairly well known .I always think it's important to remember these victims of the system.
The story is fairly well known, but research for this kind of project is pretty granular in detail, especially as the makers wanted input on world-building in particular.
An absolute tragedy of a story , this film is already on my list to watch
As you say Katja, a tragedy. And an indictment of Honecker et al. Perhaps the temporal proximity to the end of the DDR adds piquancy. A sad read with my Sunday morning coffee.
Thank you so much for this. Can’t wait to see the film!
Such a sad story, like that of all those who died in wars the day before they ended. And such an indictment of a system in which so many people once placed such hopes.
Is the film likely to be on general release?
I think they are hoping it will be, but it appears to be more difficult with short films like this one. It's making the rounds on the short film festival circuit, though.
This sounds very interesting. What a brutal reprisal against this poor guy. Did the guards on the Wall generally just blend back into German life after the collapse of the Wall Katja? What level of accountability was there (if any)?
Thank you for telling Chris' story.
A strange endeavour.
In May 1989, virtually all of the Eastern Bloc was engaged in kicking back and rising up against Communism…..
……these only had to wait six months and they could have walked across.
Begs the question, did they do it for kicks?
They had no way of knowing what was going to happen. No East German I have ever spoken to said they were able to predict that the wall was going to fall. Plus, they were both very young. They probably thought this wouldn't happen to them. I spoke to a man in Dresden this week who said "we were all pretty fearless as young people in the 1980s. The regime appeared weak and increasingly powerless."
If you read my second comment…….
I see your point. But how can anyone tell what's going to happen in six months. No one can say now what's going happen in March 2026.
Do you think it’s impossible that Starmer’s regime might be finished by March 2026?
The Berlin Wall didn’t just fall down within a week. The under-current of resistance and ‘revolution’ was palpable well before 1989.
People knew that the machine was losing its grip…and they simply stopped being afraid. The police and grenzis knew it too.
With a German-speaking friend I was on the corridor train to Berlin in spring 1988 - the grenzis were chatting to us about football for 5-10 minutes.
My friend, who had lived in Berlin in 1986, said that this was most unusual - he actually said, ‘There’s something going on’.