A nation disappears overnight — and one woman must explain what it meant to exist.
Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics, life and work.
Direction
Mund lets silences breathe like another interview subject.
Writing
Wolf's sentences are polished stones thrown at history.
Director
Karlheinz Mund
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christa Wolf was arguably East Germany's most famous writer, making this essentially 'What if we interviewed George Orwell while 1984 was collapsing in real time?'
Filmed mere months after reunification, this captures a unique window where East German intellectuals still spoke as representatives of something — before they became merely 'Ossis'.
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