Gerhard Scheumann

Meiers Nachlass

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Gerhard Scheumann, Jürgen Hentsch

An auction in Munich, 1974, old man with crockery and knick-knacks labelled "Former property of Hermann Göring": relics of Nazism sold to the benefit of the post-war state: the west criticised by the east.

Vietnam 1 - Die Teufelsinsel

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Klaus Bergatt, Sonja Stokowy

Le Quang Vinh, a revolutionary student leader, was arrested in Saigon in August 1961. A show trial and death sentence followed. World-wide protests altered it to “life imprisonment” on Con Son, the Devil’s Island. The humiliating “Tiger-Cages” and the methods of torture are shown.

Ich war, ich bin, ich werde sein

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Augusto Pinochet

In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the country - Chacabuco and Pisagua - leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings.

The War of the Mummies

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Gerhard Scheumann

The country is portrayed before and after the storm of the military to the government palace “La Moneda” when Salvador Allende is killed and the directors discover the implications of American companies that were involved in the political developments.

El Golpe Blanco - Der Weiße Putsch

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Gerhard Scheumann

At the parliamentary elections that the Unidad Popular won, there were activities to overthrow Salvador Allende. By a white, supposedly clean coup, the rightwing powers of Chile tried unsuccessfully to gain a two thirds majority in the national congress. Months later, the armed, violent coup took place.

Kamerad Krüger

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Walter Niklaus

SS officer Walter Krüger talks about his career. Now he is Secretary of the „Kameradschaftsverband I. Panzerkorps der ehemaligen Waffen-SS e.V.” (Fellowship of Former Soldiers of Waffen SS 1st Tank Corps). During the interview it shows that Krüger still considers himself and his like-minded fellows to be the elite of the nation.

Im Feuer bestanden

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Reconstruction of the last hours in the presidential palace La Moneda during the coup d’état in Santiago de Chile in 1973. Salvador Allende enters his office on September 11th at 7.30 in the morning. In the early afternoon he leaves it – wrapped in a blanket, dead.

Die Lüge und der Tod

Walter Heynowski, Stephan Hermlin

Stephan Hermlin

Documentary short.

Psalm 18

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

A service is ordered by the Junta in praise of the Junta. The Cardinal, forced to utter Benedictions, resorts to words for all those who suffer and pray, that they may be freed and consoled. The profaners have to content themselves with psalm 18: “They cried unto the Lord, but he answered them not.”

Am Wassergraben

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Gerhard Scheumann

My Lai ten years after the massacre. Reconstruction of the crime at the place where it was committed; tracing the trail of squad leader Calley in the USA; description of what happened by people who were believed to be dead.

Geldsorgen

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Gerhard Scheumann

Short film about General Eduardo Cano, who after the military coup became director of the Chilean central bank in the Pinochet dictatorship. Cano withdraws money from the circulation, which were described by opposition parties with resistance piles. From the Chile cycle by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann.

Die Angkar

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Gerhard Scheumann, Jürgen Hentsch

The Khmer word “angkar” signifies “organization”. The angkar of the Pol-Pot regime acted upon their own, unwritten laws. Records were discovered in the central interrogation and extermination camp “S21”, the former high school Tuol Sleng in Phnom Penh that document the death of 20.000 people.

Remington Cal. 12

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Gerhard Scheumann

This bullet is stamped with the inscription 'Remington Peters 12' and yet is not mentioned in Remington's catalogue. It consists of 20 small steel arrows.

Mitbürger

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende’s last radio speech is given in full; nothing is interposed. The translation of the speech appears in subtitles, individual passages are placed into the center of the picture. Film scenes and photos underline Allende’s call to his citizens. The film ends with a slow close-up to the face of the President.

Der lachende Mann - Bekenntnisse eines Mörders

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Siegfried Müller, Hermann Herlinghaus

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk about his life and war campaigns in Africa.

Der Mann an der Rampe

Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann

Gerhard Scheumann, Walter Niklaus

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems it a triumph. Militaria dealers market all the components for a do-it-yourself SS officer. The film assembles on, piece by piece, from a price list: the complete Hauptsturmführer for 2,921 Deutschmarks, ready to meet the trains arriving at Auschwitz with the appropriate aluminium lurex armband at 45 Marks.