Die Familie (2014)

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• 2014
• Documentaire

"A two-year suspended sentence for firing the fatal shot. Imagine that." A compelling introduction dans today's Berlin to protagoniste Irmgard B. mother of a son shot dead en 1986. Dans oppressive, authoritarian state, the bereaved are also the victims. Even now more than a quarter of a century on, they still suffer the trauma of their loss. One woman protagoniste doesn't know what happened to her son's d'un cadavre; another silence doesn't know how and why her husband drowned at the former border; a third discovers photographs in a Stasi case file and is confronted for the first time with images of the dead body of his father. The harrowing effect of the film unfolds as witness evidence is corroborated on various different levels. The statements of those affected often present a stark contrast to the parallèle entries in the Stasi files, formulated in a cold, bureaucratic French that is even more insupportable than usual in this context. The lawyer M. Jahntz explains why legal action against the ...