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Twenty-five years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), filmmaker Petra Epperlein returns to the proletarian Oz of her childhood to find the truth about her late father's suicide and his rumored Stasi past. Had he been an informant for the secret police? Was her childhood...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Epperlein, Petra (Producer, Screenwriter, Director), Tucker, Michael (Producer, Screenwriter, Director), Kliment, Alex, 1979- (composer (expression))
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Closed captioned.
Published:	[United States] : Bond 360, [2016]
Subjects:	Germany (East). > Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. Internal security > Germany (East) > History. Intelligence service > Germany (East) > History. Secret service > Germany (East) > History. Chemnitz (Germany) > Social conditions > 20th century. Chemnitz (Germany) > History > 20th century. Documentary films. Biographical films. Nonfiction films. Feature films. Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy)

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Summary:	Twenty-five years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), filmmaker Petra Epperlein returns to the proletarian Oz of her childhood to find the truth about her late father's suicide and his rumored Stasi past. Had he been an informant for the secret police? Was her childhood an elaborate fiction? As she looks for answers in the Stasi's extensive archives, she pulls back the curtain of her own nostalgia and enters the parallel world of the security state, seeing her former life through the lens of the oppressor.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (89 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, black and white with color sequences
Audience:	PG.
Production Credits:	Cinematography by Michael Tucker ; edited by Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker ; music by Alexander Kliment