Movies by Heinz-Dieter Knaup
Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment
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Dusk: 1950s East Berlin Bohemia
A documentary and film essay about the artist scene in East Berlin during the 1950s.
Five Days, Five Nights
Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. While Dresden is in ruins, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, Giorgione, and Vermeer have disappeared from the city’s Old Masters Picture Gallery. Red Army captain Leonov and his soldiers have been ordered to recover the lost paintings. During the next five days, Dresden’s residents join the search for the collection. A secret Nazi document offers a first lead…