Reunification in the Ice: The Story of the Last GDR Antarctic Explorers
2020•52m•8.0•Released
DocumentaryHistory
In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they returned in the spring of 1991, their homeland was a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.
Director
Anna Schmidt
Writer
Anna Schmidt
Languages
German
Studio
Schmidtfilm
Cast
Hans Henrik Wöhler
Self - Narrator (voice)
Norbert Flaake
Self
Thomas Gerloff
Self
Manfred Gronak
Self
Gerhard Schlosser
Self
Estella Weigelt
Self
Production
Company
Schmidtfilm
Company
MDR
Company
ARTE
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