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Seeking after the Family
In 1945, at the end of a lost war, millions of Germans were on the move, without a home. Disarmed soldiers were desperately seeking their families, and thousands of children had lost their parents and had no place to stay. In this unprecedented historic situation the Red Cross devised a master plan of gigantic proportions. With historical documents and newly found archival footage we will show how the Tracing Service of the Red Cross posts lists of missing persons in the ruins of the cities and broadcasts the names of survivors every day at noon over the radio. And we… 2007, NDR/ARD, 45 min
The Conquest of the Alps
Over the mountain - Through the mountain - Up the mountain - The White Coal - The Pioneers
In the heart of Europe there lies a desert of snow, ice and rock. Vast, violent and with extreme climatic conditions, this desert is known as the Alps. It is no place for man. Indeed for the longest time in history, the Alps were a hostile region which offered but a handful of dangerous routes through them. The age of industrialisation led the human imagination to soar to new heights. Pioneers wanted to harness fire, steam, coal and iron to defy time and space. The forefathers of human flight risked their lives in hand-modelled aircraft so as to defeat the… 2009, BR, 5 x 45 min
The Films of the Marshall Plan
On the 5th of June 1947, the then US Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced the European Recovery Program in an address at Harvard University: herewith he also started a film program as yet unparalleled in the media history. Some 200 documentary films were made during the years of European reconstruction within the frame of the Marshall Plan, highlighting the basic economic and social changes that the continent underwent in the post-war period. It is on these documentary films that our interest focuses: for they picture a Europe which only few of us can still imagine. And they document… 1997, BR / Arte / GMF, 60 min
The Ritchie Boys
"The Ritchie Boys" is the untold story of a group of young men, who fled Nazi Germany and returned to Europe in US-uniforms to help the Allied war effort against Hitler's Third Reich. They knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anybody else. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were trained in intelligence and psychological warfare. Not always courageous, but determined, bright, and inventive they fought their own kind of war. They saved lives. They were victors, not victims. "The Ritchie Boys" was the opening film of Hotdocs in Toronto 2004. Praise for The Ritchie Boys It… 2004, WDR / MDR / BR, 90 min