This documentary has a provocative title, that promises an interesting and different perspective on life in divided Germany. Unfortunately it is just the title or almost that is interesting.
In the perspective of the almost 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain it becomes interesting to look back at these times, and try not only to inform generations too young to have lived or understood that period, but also to try to make sense of how people lived in the two divided parts of Germany and Europe. However this documentary brings too little new information beyond what we knew or what we guessed. It may also be that the differences between Est and West Germany were not that deep, I lived in Eastern Europe during the Communist rule and the approach towards abortion or sexual education was completely different than the one described here. East Germany almost seems if not a more liberal place than a more rational one than West Germany. And yet, when the Wall fell down it was East Germans who rushed to the West.
Of course, the lack of filmed material from East Germany is quite normal, they are replaced by spoken material which is OK, but not sensational. Cartoons do not help either, they are not too funny and low graphics in the 60s style. Overall an average documentary on a subject that promised much more.
In the perspective of the almost 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain it becomes interesting to look back at these times, and try not only to inform generations too young to have lived or understood that period, but also to try to make sense of how people lived in the two divided parts of Germany and Europe. However this documentary brings too little new information beyond what we knew or what we guessed. It may also be that the differences between Est and West Germany were not that deep, I lived in Eastern Europe during the Communist rule and the approach towards abortion or sexual education was completely different than the one described here. East Germany almost seems if not a more liberal place than a more rational one than West Germany. And yet, when the Wall fell down it was East Germans who rushed to the West.
Of course, the lack of filmed material from East Germany is quite normal, they are replaced by spoken material which is OK, but not sensational. Cartoons do not help either, they are not too funny and low graphics in the 60s style. Overall an average documentary on a subject that promised much more.
