Films by Jürgen Ast

Germany 2019, 45 min
by Daniel Ast, Jürgen Ast

Bernauer Strasse in Berlin is symbolic of the division of Germany. The border line ran along the walls of the houses that stood on the eastern side. Both sides of the street changed radically when the Wall went up. Thirty years after the fall of the Wall, we investigate into a vanished place that brings into focus the history of the Berlin Wall like nowhere else.

Germany 2018, 45 min
by Daniel Ast, Jürgen Ast

Linz in Austria was to become the cultural capital of the Nazis. Hitler spent years planning to transform the provincial town into a model city with the „Führermuseum“ at its centre. An investigation into the city’s past.Linz, the rather sleepy city on the river Danube, was the city of Hitler’s youth, the city of his dreams. After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, he planned to transform the provincial town into a „national work of art“. He wanted to create a political backdrop on the ban

2018, 60 min
by Daniel Ast, Jürgen Ast

Tony Vaccaro is the last important chronicler of World War II and an icon of glossy fashion photography. In New York, he shows us his pictures which document 50 years of world history.The pictures of New York photographer Tony Vaccaro document 50 years of world history. He is the last surviving chronicler of World War II and the post-war period. His career began in 1944 as a soldier on Omaha Beach in Normandy. For him, D-Day meant holding an M1 assault rifle in one hand and an Argus C3 camera in

2016, 52 min
by Jürgen Ast

In April 1991, an East Berlin man was kidnapped by US secret service agents.After being interrogated, 'Jens Karney' was flown to the USA and sentenced to 38 years imprisonment…Almost exactly 30 years before Edward Snowden turned his back on the NSA, fellow countryman, then Jeffrey Carney, did the same. From 1983, the NSA intelligence specialist passed on top NSA secrets to the East GermanStasi, becoming one of the Eastern Bloc’s key agents. His codename: 'Kid'.Shortly after his transferral to th

Germany 2012, 52 min
by Jürgen Ast, Kerstin Mauersberger

It was Hitler's official residence, his office, his bunker; from here he planned the war and here it ended with his death - the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. ''He who enters the Reich Chancellery must feel that he is in the presence of the Lords of the World.'' This was the only condition that Adolf Hitler set for his building which was completed in 1939. It was a piece of architecture that became the stage for a merciless and ruthless power; a megalomaniac’s villa with endless hallways and h