Benjamin Leers

Benjamin Leers

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Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution 2008 (7)

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a provocative reckoning with the ideological upbringing that seemed so progressive and yet was suffocated by the children's desire to finally grow up. With an ironic eye and a feuilletonistic style, author Richard David Precht and Cologne documentary film director André Schäfer trace a childhood in the West German provinces - and place the major events of those years in completely different, smaller and very private contexts.
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A Journey to the Past N/A

During the end of World War 2, in May 1945, a 23-year old British officer goes on an adventure to the east. Manfred Gans, son of a German-Jewish merchant family is traveling through Germany, in the hope of finding his parents alive in the concentration camp Theresienstadt near Prague. More than 70 years later, his descendants step into his footsteps.