The Forgotten Army (2016)

Name: The Forgotten Army
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-08-25T10:54:54+02:00

Documentary | 89 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 89 minuten

Alternative title: Die Vergessene Armee

Country: Germany

Directed by: Signe Astrup

IMDb score: 7,0 (21)

Releasedate: 8 June 2017

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The Forgotten Army plot

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was not only history for the GDR, but also for the National People's Army (NVA). Other armed organs of the socialist state were disbanded shortly afterwards. About 11,000 former East German soldiers were integrated into the German armed forces for a long time, but the majority, hundreds of thousands of people, were suddenly unemployed. Director Signe Astrup shows what happens to the ex-soldiers from East Germany in the Federal Republic, how they deal with their past and how this process has influenced German history. Many of these men have lost their old identity and found no place in reunified Germany. They regret that the GDR no longer exists.