The Communist 2019

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Documentary

The “Film about the Father” is a difficult genre. Andreas Goldstein, son of the GDR cultural functionary Klaus Gysi (1912–1999) has tackled this task with a complete lack of vanity, but with insistence: measured and calm, honest and intellectual, analytical and personal. He uncovers a mosaic that renounces both the teleologies of the self-styled winners of history and the simplifications of (West) German Oscar nominees. This film is not about the lives of others, but about his own life. Not about yesterday, about today, too.

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Release Date 2019-04-11
Runtime 1h 12m
Directors Jakobine Motz, Andreas Goldstein
Producers Heino Deckert, Andreas Goldstein, Susanne Binninger
Writer Andreas Goldstein