Öl - Die Wahrheit über den Untergang der DDR

Story

Sometime in the early 1980s: Haiko R. was working on a GDR research ship studying schools of fish in the Baltic Sea. In fact, the SED leadership was feverishly hunting for oil. Haiko R. was one of the few who knew what was actually going on. After the fall of the Wall, he went abroad, returning years later. In the meantime, his old comrades had been making their fortunes. Haiko R. felt hard done by and wanted revenge by going public with potentially explosive information: was the fall of the GDR stage-managed? Mockumentary about the “real reasons” for the fall of the Wall.

Director

NIKI STEIN (*1961) has made numerous episodes of Tatort and award-winning TV films like Bis nichts mehr bleibt [Until Nothing Remains] (2010) and Rommel (2012). In 2015, his film Öl – Die Wahrheit über den Untergang der DDR was shown at FILMFEST HAMBURG