Original title: Verriegelte ZeitDirector: Sibylle Schönemann
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After documentary filmmaker Sibylle Schönemann applied to leave the GDR and go to West Germany in 1984, she was arrested by the Stasi—the East German secret police—and imprisoned for the “crime of interfering with state activities.” One year later, after West Germany literally bought her freedom, she was released.
A few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, Schönemann goes back to the East and confronts the people responsible for her imprisonment: fellow workers, prison guards and members of the Stasi. Not all of them are willing to talk.
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