Liberators Take Liberties, part 1 (1992)
Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the first part of the documentary Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, after 46 years of silence they talk for the first time publicly about their violent experiences that have left such a mark.
Director: Helke Sander
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/en/online/streaming/liberators-take-liberties-part-1
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Helke Sander as Self |
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Hildegard Knef as Self |
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Lev Kopelev as Self |
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Inge Deutschkron as Self |
| Directing | Helke Sander | Director |
| Writing | Helke Sander | Writer |
| Sound | Wolfgang Hamm | Music |
| Editing | Karin Nowarra | Editor |
| Production | Ulrike Herdin | Producer |
| Editing | Helke Sander | Editor |
| Editing | Ursula Höf | Editor |
| Production | Elke Peters | Producer |
| Production | Helke Sander | Producer |
| Camera | Hille Sagel | Director of Photography |
| Production | Klaus Volkenborn | Producer |