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The Burning Wall

2002, Movie, NR, 115 mins

The Burning Wall: Review

Hava Kohav Beller's history of dissent in the German Democratic Republic is admirably concise and surprisingly thorough, given the broad range of the subject matter and the secrecy that still surrounds the often-criminal efforts of East Germany's secret police — the Stasi — to stifle voices of opposition. Beller's strategy is to use as a framework the story of chemist Robert Havemann, an anti-Nazi resistance hero and member of East German parliament, whose experienc... read more leave a comment