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Rated 6.1 on TMDB

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"Pictures from the late eighties in the GDR on up to the immediate present in the year 2008 in Germany. What has been left over besieges my mind. All these pictures keep reassembling themselves to make up something which they were originally not made for. They are still in motion. They are becoming history." (Thomas Heise)

Released: 2009
Runtime: 2h 44m
Genres: Documentary
Country: Germany
Language: German

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Thomas HeiseDirector, Writer

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Fritz Marquardt
Karl Kneidl

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