Films by Thomas Balzer

Germany 2020, 89 min
by Thomas Balzer

On the 5th of September 2006 constructions began with a happy ground breaking ceremony. Six proud men in dark suits took the ceremonic spades in Schönefeld, south east of Berlin, and laughed at the cameras. Including the Prime Ministers of the States of Brandenburg and Berlin, Mathias Platzeck and Klaus Wowereit, former head of the Deutsche Bahn company Hartmut Mehdorn and the former Federal Minister of Transport Wolfgang Tiefensee. Only one person wasn’t allowed on the picture: the mayor of Sch

Germany 1991, 55 min
by Thomas Balzer

Amadeu Antonio came to the GDR from Angola as a "contract worker" in 1987. One year after the opening of the Wall, on the night of November 24-25, 1990, Amadeu Antonio and some of his work colleagues were attacked by a group of neo-Nazis and skinheads in front of the discotheque "Hüttengasthof" in Eberswalde, a small town northwest of Berlin. While his friends were able to save themselves, some of them seriously injured, Amadeu Antonio did not escape the thugs. He remained unconscious and u