Hop Film Event: The Spies Among Us (discussion follows with the filmmakers)
A victim of East Germany's Stasi secret police takes on a personal investigation decades later, offering a rare look at the data-driven surveillance state. Discussion follows.
A victim of East Germany's Stasi secret police takes on a personal investigation decades later, offering a rare look at the data-driven surveillance state. Discussion follows.
A personal investigation into family secrets by Peter Keup, a Stasi victim-turned-historian, takes a turn when he contacts the men who ran the system. These are the first dialogues between Stasi officers and a victim ever recorded. Through these encounters a terrifying mosaic is built of the lengths people go to maintain power in a dictatorship, as well as the indomitable human spirit that seeks truth and self-determination.
Premiering at SXSW and picking up a jury award at the New Hampshire Film Festival, this gripping documentary offers "a timely portrait of oppression and the truth-seeking determination needed to face it down" (IndieWire).
