Gerhard Scheumann

Born: 1930-12-25

Gerhard Scheumann was born on December 25, 1930 in Ortelsburg, East Prussia, Germany [now Szczytno, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Pilots in Pajamas (1968), Der Präsident im Exil (1969) and Am Wassergraben (1978). He died on May 30, 1998 in Berlin, Germany.


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One Minute of Darkness Does Not Blind Us

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1976-01-11

This documentary deals with the coup d'état of general Pinochet in Chile 1975 and its immediate...

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And Then the First Rice

as uncredited
Released: 1977-02-09

Stories from the first summer after the end of the war in Vietnam

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O.K.

as Self (voice)
Released: 1965-02-01

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S....

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I Sincerely Repent

as uncredited
Released: 1977-03-30

Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education...

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I Was, I Am, I Will Be

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1974-09-10

In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of...

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At the Ditch

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1978-04-26

My Lai ten years after the massacre. Reconstruction of the crime at the place where it was...

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The Angkar

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1981-11-24

The Khmer word “angkar” signifies “organization”. The angkar of the Pol-Pot regime acted upon...

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The Dead Are Not Silent

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1978-04-17

Moy de Tohá and Isabel Letelier tell their story. They are the widows of two Defence Ministers...

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The President in Exile

as Interviewer
Released: 1969-08-15

The President Dr. Walter Becher, officially the spokesman for the Sudeten German Homeland...

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Remington Cal. 12

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1972-11-22

This bullet is stamped with the inscription 'Remington Peters 12' and yet is not mentioned in...

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The Comical Game

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1984-07-06

A card game is introduced: “Nuclear War". An entertaining, jolly card game for between two and...

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Phoenix

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1979-11-25

The goal of the American operation "Phoenix" in Vietnam was to destroy all the bases of the...

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Geldsorgen

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1975-11-07

Short film about General Eduardo Cano, who after the military coup became director of the...

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Amok

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1985-09-06

The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest...

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The Iron Fortress

as uncredited
Released: 1977-11-20

Weeks after the victory in Vietnam, first pictures of a new humanity are captured: old and sick...

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Meier's Legacy

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1975-09-19

An auction in Munich, 1974, old man with crockery and knick-knacks labelled "Former property of...

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Bye-Bye Wheelus

as Interviews
Released: 1971-03-05

Wheelus Air Base was once the largest American air base outside the USA itself. Ordered to be...

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The Man Who Met the Trains

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1989-09-01

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at...

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Hint from a Neighbor

as Sprecher
Released: 1966-03-29

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival....

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The White Coup

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1975-03-04

At the parliamentary elections that the Unidad Popular won, there were activities to overthrow...

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The War of the Mummies

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1974-03-04

The country is portrayed before and after the storm of the military to the government palace “La...

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Pilots in Pajamas

as Interviewer
First aired: 1968-04-17

Documentary interviews with 10 US airmen shot down over North Vietnam

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