Reunification in the Ice: The Story of the Last GDR Antarctic Explorers

2020

52m

8.0

8.0/10

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Overview

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they returned in the spring of 1991, their homeland was a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.

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Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies

Schmidtfilm MDR ARTE

Production Countries

Germany

Spoken Languages

German

Keywords

german democratic republic research station antarctica polar exploration german reunification south pole region polar region polar research station

Quick Facts

Original Title	Wende im Eis - Die Geschichte der letzten DDR-Antarktisforscher
Release Date	October 2, 2020
Status	Released
Language	DE
IMDb ID	tt13199916
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