The 2 in 1 Section: Uwe Johnson Is Watching TV &  Leipzig in Autumn

After the screening of both films, the directors talked to the spectators about their views on the fall of the Berlin wall and the importance of the event. The director of Uwe Johnson Is Watching TV, Saskia Walker, called her protagonist a kind of visionary. He endeavoured and succeeded in making the West Germans understand what was happening in East Germany, so that an idea of a united German nation could again be conceived. Despite an exhaustive documentary about the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig in 1989, Andreas Voigt, director of Leipzig in Autumn, elucidated the events during that critical situation before the fall. Included were interviews with those who took part in the mass protest, the courageous individuals who dared to express their hope for the future and pledged their support to the New Forum movement and thereby the new, free Germany.

                                                                                        Barbara Spreiz