Diary of a German Woman (1969)
Diary of a German Woman (also known as You are Mine - A German Diary) is the most personal of the Thorndikes’ projects. Based on Annelie’s diary entries, her story was to be the starting point for a kind of all-German ‘Heimatfilm’ that praises the utopian power of the GDR and sharply condemns Federal German wrongs, but finds transcendent beauty on both sides of the wall. Over the course of production, however, the visionary dimension of the project was progressively trimmed down, though it’s still tangible everywhere in the compromised final version. The intensity of its pathos is both oppressive and enchanting; some historical simplifications and ideological twists and bends may be hair-raising, but they still achieve the desired effect.
Directors: Hans Joachim Manfred, Hans-Joachim Funk, Michael Englberger, Manfred Krause, Annelie Thorndike, Andrew Thorndike.
| Camera | Hermann Ihde | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Hans Joachim Manfred | Director |
| Camera | Ernst Oeltze | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Annelie Thorndike | Writer |
| Directing | Hans-Joachim Funk | Director |
| Camera | Christian Lehmann | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Michael Englberger | Director |
| Directing | Manfred Krause | Director |
| Directing | Annelie Thorndike | Director |
| Directing | Andrew Thorndike | Director |
