Gerhard Scheumann Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1967
    Der Fall Bernd K.

    Der Fall Bernd K.

    Der Fall Bernd K.

    01967HD

    Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation

    Der Fall Bernd K.
  • 1967
    Heimweh nach der Zukunft. Max Steenbeck erzählt

    Heimweh nach der Zukunft. Max Steenbeck erzählt

    Heimweh nach der Zukunft. Max Steenbeck erzählt

    01967HD

    Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck

    Heimweh nach der Zukunft. Max Steenbeck erzählt
  • 1981
    The Angkar

    The Angkar

    The Angkar

    01981HD

    The Khmer word “angkar” signifies “organization”. The angkar of the Pol-Pot regime acted upon their own, unwritten laws....

    The Angkar
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1991
    Walter Hunger - A German Résumé

    Walter Hunger - A German Résumé

    Walter Hunger - A German Résumé

    01991HD

    Portrait of the industrialist Walter Hunger from Frankenberg in Saxony. He left the German Democratic Republic in 1958 with his family and closest...

    Walter Hunger - A German Résumé
  • 1979
    A Refugee from Vietnam

    A Refugee from Vietnam

    A Refugee from Vietnam

    01979HD

    After becoming notorious world-wide for a bloody killing, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, former general and chief of the South Vietnamese police, moved to the...

    A Refugee from Vietnam
  • 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
  • 1989
    The Man Who Met the Trains

    The Man Who Met the Trains

    The Man Who Met the Trains

    01989HD

    A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems...

    The Man Who Met the Trains
  • 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
  • 1991
    City-Sleeper

    City-Sleeper

    City-Sleeper

    01991HD

    Homelessness in New York. Interviews with those affected. An architect from San Francisco comes up with the idea of building the so-called "City...

    City-Sleeper
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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