Daughter sets out to discover the truth of her father's political role...
“Karl Marx City” is a black & white documentary from Petra Epperlein, a woman who grew up in the former German Democratic Republic. She managed to get out in its last days and eventually married American filmmaker Michael Tucker. Her father, an important man in Eastern Bloc industrial circles but never a party member, remained in relative comfort. But he killed himself in 1999 after sending a cryptic letter to his daughter. She determined to employ her filmmaking skills to find out why and returned to Germany after 25 years.<br /><br />Wearing headphones and carrying a large microphone, she sets about interviewing her mother, twin brothers, and others who might provide clues. She learns that after the wall came down, her father began receiving anonymous letters accusing him of collaboration with the Starsi— the state security agency. A great deal of revealing information is obtained from archivists and curators who are preserving a record of the Stasi’s state brutality. Ultimately, what Epperlein discovers is more disturbing than she expected.<br /><br />The film stands out because it looks like a 40s film noir with its shadowy photography, grim looking individuals, and twists along the way. Rather than a straightforward documentary, Epperlein uses her personal interest<br />to solve the mystery of her father’s suicide. She explores the increasing suicide rate of men following the fall of the wall and the horrifying psychological games played by the Stasi against anyone suspected of being a political detractor. The documentary has the feel of Orwell’s “1984”  with a very real, feared Big Brother with eyes everywhere.<br /><br />There are no bonus features on the unrated widescreen DVD release. The film is in English and German, with English subtitles.
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