Films by Dörte Franke

Germany 2010, 91 min
by Dörte Franke, Marc Bauder

“You have no chance, but use it!” That’s roughly how the power structures in East-Berlin in December 1989 could be described. On one side the apparatus of the state, which desperately clung to power. On the other side a heap of fragmented opposition groups, from the Neues Forum to Demokratischer Aufbruch - estimates assume there were 600 activists at the time - and a population who were only just beginning to see themselves as a people. Representatives of both sides faced each other at the Round

Germany 2007, 73 min
by Dörte Franke

The documentary STUMBLING STONE (73 min) is a portrait, a road movie and the story of the largest decentralized memorial in the world. The focus is on the conceptional artist Gunter Demnig, who has set 12 000 names of forgotten Nazi victims in concrete of Germany's and Europe's pavements. The project is declined by members of the Jewish community, Neo-Nazis are fighting it, and in some cities it is illegal. But behind every stone stands a committed helper and private donations. They see a possib