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Country of origin
  
Germany

Running time
  
52 minutes per episode

First episode date
  
8 November 2004

6.9/10
IMDb

No. of episodes
  
10 in 3 sets

Original release
  
2004 on MDR

Network
  
Das Erste

Similar
  
The Smoking Room, Trigger Happy TV, 14 ‑ Diaries of the Great War, Burning Flame III, Aktuelle Kamera

Damals in der DDR (Back then in East Germany) is a ten part German documentary television series which was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2005.

It was produced by MDR, WDR and Gunnar Dedio of the production firm Looks, Film and TV. The series uses contemportay accounts to report on life in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) during 1945 - 1990.

The title song for the series was sung by Udo Lindenberg. On 28 July 2006, the documentary series became available on DVD.

Episode Titles

  1. Dawn amongst the Ruins.
  2. New beginnings in Russian.
  3. Utopia behind Walls.
  4. Plans and Bankruptcy.
  5. Party without the People.
  6. Republic on the brink of disaster.
  7. A State at its end.
  8. Freedom without borders.
  9. Deutsche Marks for everyone.
  10. Unified for ever.

Extra episode: The People under Control (2007)

References

Damals in der DDR Wikipedia
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