Films by Katrin Seybold

Germany 2015, 83 min
by Ula Stöckl, Katrin Seybold

'The films I make have to get made, because when these people are dead they’re dead and all we’ll have left are Gestapo records, the records of the perpetrators. We can’t accept that.'This quote graces the beginning of Katrin Seybold’s last film which was finished by her long-standing friend and colleague Ula Stöckl following Seybold’s death on 27 June, 2012. This aspiration characterised Seybold’s entire cinematic oeuvre.The Nazis and resistance against the regime were her two core topics; Seyb

Germany 2008, 83 min
by Katrin Seybold

This is the first comprehensive documentary portrayal of DIE WEISSE ROSE: the movement led by Munich students and their spirit of resistance to the Nazi regime. Companions, girl-friends, brothers and sisters tell the story of how they supported the distribution of tracts, how they survived Gestapo interrogation and courtroom trials in the Nazis' Volksgerichtshof. These people are writing pages of German history. In impressive manner, with a delicate aesthetic sensitivity, the personal statement