From Us to Me

2017 • 83 minutes

About this movie

For 45 years East Germany was ruled by a strict and secretive communist government, on the geographical edge but political heart of the Soviet bloc. In 1987, a British film crew gained unprecedented access to film everyday life inside the GDR - but only the side of life the state let them see. In this documentary the crew return to the places and people they visited then, to see how their lives have changed and how they recall the "workers' paradise