Décomposition de l'âme (la)

Décomposition de l'âme (la)

Belgium, 2002, 35 mm, Format diffusion : 1.77 (HDV 16:9), 60 & 82 minutes

Berlin-Hohenschönhausen was not an ordinary place of detention. This former STASI remand centre did not appear on maps of East Berlin and had the sinister singularity of having as many interrogation rooms as detention cells. It was symbolic of the repressive system of the ex-GDR. Its true function was that of the psychological ”decomposition” of the inmates.
Today, in the absence of the torturers,three witnesses echo this topology of terror.

”There are some who say : you can’t change men by force.
But they would say : don’t be so sure. We know our trade and time is on our side.”
Jürgen Fuchs

• Screenplay: Nina Toussaint & Massimo Iannetta
• Photography: Rémon Fromont
• Sound: Paul Oberle & Olivier Vanderaa
• Image editing: Sandrine Deegen
• Mixing: Michel Goossens
• Languages: DE
• Subtitles: FR, EN, ES
• Available formats: Beta Digital, Digital, DVD
• With: Témoins : Harmut Richter, Sigrid Paul. Textes: Jürgen Fuchs ("Procès verbal d’un duel”- Editions Flammarion)
• Production: Image Création.com (Martine Barbé) & CBA
• Coproduction: CBA, RTBF, Arte, NDR, Filmförderung Hamburg. Avec l’aide du centre du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique et des télédistributeurs wallons.
• Coproduction workshop: CBA
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