Interview sequences with prison inmates on the one hand and employees of the East German secret service (Stasi) on the other are cut against each other. This is still very enlightening today, because the conditions in the political prisons run by the Stasi were much worse than in other prisons in the GDR or in West Germany. The systematic dismantling work with which the prisoners were broken and ultimately tortured is shown. In contrast, the attempts by the perpetrators to present their work as 'legal within the laws of the GDR' do make me angry today. I would have preferred the short running time of 30 minutes to be longer and the whole thing more detailed. In any case, a well made documentary.
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