East Berliner Sascha Anderson was a charismatic cultural dissident with a wide circle of colleagues and friends -- until they discovered he'd been ratting them out to the Stasi, the dreaded East German secret police, for 20 years. In this deceptively
low-key documentary, Swedish journalist Bjorn Cederberg, a longtime friend of Anderson, poses disturbing questions about collaboration, responsibility, moral courage and the ways in which political repression warps the soul. Actor John Hurt provides an English-language narration.
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
58 mins