Films by Betina Bärtschi

Germany 2010, 80 min
by Angela Zumpe

West Berlin, Lankwitz. In May 1968, my 21-year-old brother Reinhard announced to my father, my mother and myself that within a few days he would be moving over to the GDR and applying for East German citizenship. Contacts were broken off. My brother committed suicide in January of 1969, on a sunday morning, while my father, a Berlin minister, read the sermon to his community. The film is a search for traces - in the time between reception camp and his death8 months later, for possible stations o