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2:30 PM

Saint Nicholas Church

Film

  • Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hongkong

  • Price $ 80/64* *Tickets for full-time students, senior citizens, aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.| Group Booking Discount: 20% off for purchase of 4 or more above standard tickets. | 20% discount to Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s students with a valid proof
  • Part of series: Winds of Change

Nikolaikirche ©

Director: Frank Beyer
1995 | 138 mins | German with English subtitles | 35mm | Colour
Introduction and post-screening talk by Andreas Kötzing


Festival:
Taipei Film Festival 2009

No guns nor cannons. Only conversations.

In 1988, the Monday prayers in Leipzig’s Saint Nicholas Church have gradually turned into gatherings of peaceful civilians expressing their want for changes in the GDR. Architect Astrid is also undergoing conflicts in her marriage, family and profession - she argues more with her brother Alexander, an officer in the Stasi (State Security Service). Grippingly realistic, the film portrays an East German family during the two years of Monday Demonstrations until their end in 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Saint Nicholas Church is a TV film made by one of the most important East German directors, Frank Beyer. The story strives for historical truths and coherence of details, shedding light on the last days of the GDR.