The Communist

a film by Andreas Goldstein

The Communist

Germany | 2018 | 72:00 min

Original Title:
DER FUNKTIONÄR

Formal Categories

Biography / Portrait Family Society Personal Point of View

Content Categories

Documentary
Synopsis
My father Klaus Gysi - Jew and communist - made his career in the former GDR after years of illegality in Nazi Germany. The fall of socialism burnt his life efforts in one brief moment. The film THE COMMUNIST tries to reflect on his failure from the viewpoint of my own experiences within this historical time. My fundamental historical experience is opportunism. 1990 people already forgot what they believed in the year before. So did my father, one of the leading operatives of the GDR, who now calls the state he worked for all his life a dictatorship which should have been prevented. A sudden change of heart which disturbed me and was the reason to make this movie.
Festivals/Awards
2018
61st DOK Leipzig
42nd Diusburger Filmwoche - Prize of City of Diusburg
2019
16 dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg
Cast and Crew
  • Director Andreas Goldstein
  • Producer Andreas Goldstein, Heino Deckert
  • Director of Photography Jakobine Motz
  • Editor Chris Wright
Original Languages

German

Production Company
ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Gottschedstr. 18, 04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 9839696

leipzig@majade.de
http://www.majade.de
Co-Production Company
OKTOBERFILM Goldstein & Binninger GbR
Germany
oktoberfilm.de
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