IDFA 1991
Im glanze dieses glückes
In the Splendor of Happiness
Helga Reidemeister, Johann Feindt
Germany
1990
85 min
It was on 9 November 1989 that the Berlin Wall fell. With the revolution in the German Democratic Republic, a world exploded. A world that looked so solid in the economic, political, military, ethical, social and psychological sense. The reunification of Germany not only signifies the outlines of a new course, but simultaneously means an ending.
In the splendor of happiness combines fragments of this process: images of an auction of the Wall alternated with confessions of a Stasi member. Fear and hope go hand in hand. Political rhetoric flowers unprecedentedly, as does the system of informers and other monstrosities, proliferating in the vacuum of the transition.
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