Films by Peter Petrides

Germany 2010, 87 min
by Robert Krieg

A black-and-white photograph, six boys about ten years old posing perkily and flashing victory signs for the camera. That was Bethlehem in the year 1989 during the Palestinian popular uprising and the shooting of Robert Krieg's documentary film "Intifada - On the Way to Palestine". Twenty years later the areas that were supposed to be liberated are enclosed by a wall. Who are the children in the picture? What are their lives like today? Are they alive? Holding the photograph, the film team retur

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

Germany 2005, 45 min
by Robert Krieg, Monika Nolte

Shame never silenced Paul B. One of hundreds of thousands declared 'unworthy of living' ('lebensunwert') under Nazi racial laws, he is one of the very few to publicly fight for his rehabilitaion. By focusing on Paul B.'s story, the film reveals a dark chapter in German psychiatry, which didn't exactly end in 1945. Several decades later, the consequences have caught up with Paul B. once again.