Movie

Das Gaswerk

How are problems solved in a socialist country? The film centres on an old gasworks in the middle of a workers' district in Berlin, capital of the GDR. For 100 years it was polluting the environment - now it is closed. What has happened to the former workers? Have they been made redundant? Will the site of the old works be taken over by a new one, or will a park be laid out there for the local inhabitants?

Screenplay

Alfons Machalz

Director

Alfons Machalz

Status

Released

Release date

02/01/1982

Original language

German