Karl Gass

Nationalität: Deutsch (1990)

A man, born in 1889 - the year Hitler and Chaplin were born, the Second International and the Eiffel Tower - died in 1954, kept a diary from 1919 and 1953, three and a half decades. The man was a principal, so the diary is a school chronicle. During this l ...

Jeder konnte es sehen (1988)

Karl Gass compiles film material to document the Pogromnacht in 1938. ...

Asse (1966)

Revolution am Telefon - Eine Dokumentation zum 20. Juli 1944 (1964)

East German documentary about the 20 July plot. ...

Feierabend (1964)

The enjoyment of life between the construction site and the caravans is not as cultured, as the officially ordered leisure time was supposed to be. ...

Look at this City (1962)

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no longer go on as they were before. Unmistakably, as in almost all of Karl Gass' films, the passion with which ...

Allons enfants... pour l'Algérie (1962)

Licht für Palermo (1961)

Palermo, pearl of the Mediterranean, is one of the most popular holiday resorts for European and American tourists. What they do not see, however, are the narrow lanes in the city centre, where thousands upon thousands crowd together in damp and dark holes ...

Gebirge und Meer (1955)

This documentary is the first co-production between the GDR and the CSR, showing Czech pioneers exploring the island of Rügen and the "Ernst Thälmann Pioneers" climbing through the High Tatras. Motivated and full of curiosity, the children from the CSR e ...

Vom Alex zum Eismeer (1954)

Five cameramen of the DEFA travel with the trawler ROS 206 to its fishing grounds in the Arctic Ocean. The journey to the grounds takes 5,5 days. Day and night the nets are thrown out and pulled aboard again when they are full. After three weeks of hard wo ...

1952 - Das entscheidende Jahr (1952)

Presentation of the economic upswing in the GDR, emphasizing the discovery of the process for the production of high-temperature lignite coke and the commissioning of the Lauchhammer large-scale coking plant. ...

The Ascending Path (1950)

The economic and cultural improvements of the Soviet Occupied Sector are documented with scenes from the years 1945 to 1950. The film deals with the land reform, the founding of the Socialist Unity Party, the expropriation of war criminals, the founding of ...

Vielleicht bin ich ein Don Quichotte - Winfried Junge und die Kinder von Golzow (1995)

Documentary about documentarian Winfried Junge. ...

Drehbuch - Die Zeiten (1993)

The first cinematic review after the fall of the Wall and the end of the GDR. In the context of a reunion of the "children of Golzow" on the 1st anniversary of German unity and their joint trip to Hamburg also a workshop report documenting the thirty-year ...

Globke heute (1963)

Portrait of Hans Globke, jurist at the ministry of interior during the Third Reich and co-author of an official commentary to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, the Nazi Racial Legislation. While Adenauer appointed him Secretary of State in 1953, he was sentenced ...