Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Hoferichter Jacobs
Generation Wende on the Web:Official Website
Generation Wende
"Suddenly we were German citizens"Movie
DirectorAriane Riecker
1 hr 30 min
Plot
In 1987 the Central Institute for Youth Research in the GDR starts asking then 14yearold pupils in great detail about their lives and their political attitudes Two years later everything changes The land disappears and the young people grow up in a new state The former director of studies Prof Peter Forster manages to continue the study after the political upheaval until today Thus a remarkable collection of material has emerged fully spent yet in the GDR over the last born childhood and adolescence There are the personal biographies of the study participants who bear witness to the process of transformation from a socialist system of the GDR into the capitalist system of the Federal Republic
