Films by Gerburg Rohde-Dahl

Polen, Germany 2019, 90 min
by Gerburg Rohde-Dahl, Wladek Jurkow

The story of Johanna Langefeld is the only known case of an SS guard being saved from a death sentence after the war by her own victims. In 1946, she escaped from a Cracow prison where she was awaiting trial. Her former prisoners not only helped her escape but also hid her from the Polish authorities for ten years. What were their motives?Woman and War – Perpetrators and victimsThe film explores the only known case of a high-ranking SS guard being supported by her own victims: Johanna Langefeld,

Germany 2019, 47 min
by Gerburg Rohde-Dahl

The film tells about my experiences caring for my sister during her final six months of life, about my inner conflicts and my feelings of helplessness. However, despite all the tears I shed, I felt at the same time strengthened and sustained. The quantum physician Hans-Peter Dürr writes in his book Love, Source of Cosmosabout the “Field of Liveliness”. Does a special field of strength exist in proximity of death?

Germany 2009
by Gerburg Rohde-Dahl

A documentary about the filmmaker's process of self and social understandings occasioned by the construction of the Berlin "Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe". From the installing of the first slabs in the center of Berlin in September 2003 through the autumn of 2007, two years after its opening to the public, the filmmaker documented the Monument. She interviewed many visitors to the Memorial, its initiator, Lea Rosh, its architect, Peter Eisenman, and her own sister, 12 years elder. "