Annelie Thorndike

Unternehmen Teutonenschwert

Annelie Thorndike, Andrew Thorndike

Спорная документальная лента студии DEFA пытается доказать на основе документов и архивных материалов, что тогдашний командующий сухопутными войсками НАТО из Западной Германии генерал Ганс Шпейдель был ответственен за убийство югославского короля Александра I и министра иностранных дел Франции Барту в 1934 году. Она описывает его роль в преддверии Второй мировой войны в качестве начальника штаба.

Du und mancher Kamerad

Annelie Thorndike, Andrew Thorndike

Found footage documentary about the rise of the nazi party and the second world war.

Urlaub auf Sylt

Annelie Thorndike, Andrew Thorndike

Irmgard Düren, Raimund Schelcher

Vacation in Sylt is a black and white compilation film about Heinz Reinefarth, a Nazi Party member, high SS police leader of Warthe, and later mayor (1951-1964) of Westerland/Sylt.

Du bist Min – Ein deutsches Tagebuch

Hans Joachim Manfred, Annelie Thorndike

The core of this most personal of the Thorndikes’ projects are Annelie’s diary entries: Her story is to be the starting point for a kind of all-German ‘Heimatfilm’ that praises the utopian power of the GDR and sharply condemns Federal German wrongs, but finds transcendent beauty on both sides of the wall. Over the course of production, however, the visionary dimension of the project was progressively trimmed down, though it’s still tangible everywhere in the compromised final version: The intensity of its pathos is both oppressive and enchanting; some historical simplifications and ideological twists and bends may be hair-raising, but they still achieve the desired effect.

Aufbruch

Annelie Thorndike

Dresden old and new, in between photo documents from 1945/46, the time of resurrection, enriched by very personal commentaries by woman director Annelie Thorndike. Music for solo trumpet, composed by Reiner Bredemeyer and played by Ludwig Guettler, is set to this film.