Catalogue des films de « Karl Gass »

Ten years of an agricultural production cooperative. Unpublished images from 1963, which deal with sloppiness, alcohol addiction, and irresponsibility, until the village chronicle reaches the present day. Thus the social development is confirmed...

Karl Gass portrays workers in a petroleum processing plant in Schwedt. Without adornment or embellishment, he presents the everyday life of assembly line operators: their ribaldry, joy and alcohol consumption stand in stark contrast to the...

A strikingly modernist propaganda piece. It uses rare authentic images and newsreels from both sides to justify the erection of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961. What makes the viewer slightly uneasy is that the film comes across as rather less...

The Algerian war for independence is presented in three stylistically distinct chapters: the political and economical background to the conflict; the tragic impact the war has on children, families, and refugees; the French people’s solidarity...

A picture of the developing Cold War politics. Each of the key changes implemented in the GDR – land reform, political leadership and economic planning – is juxtaposed with images of West-German capitalism: unemployment, impoverished...