The Communist | LEFFEST - Lisboa Film Festival

In Goldstein’s film about the father, the son reflects on his father’s past as a jew and a communist who spent his life working for the German Democratic Republic. Under this light, Goldstein examines himself and our present through a multi-layered montage of interviews with his father, family photographs and images of Berlin, reflecting on controversial aspects of that man's life.

Duration: 72
Production year: 2018
Country: Germany
Subtitles: min Subtitles PT and EN

Director: Andreas Goldstein
Screenplay: Andreas Goldstein
DOP: Jakobine Motz
Production: Andreas Goldstein, Heino Deckert, Oktoberfilm Goldstein & Binninger GbR

Andreas Goldstein

Andreas Goldstein was born in East Berlin in 1964, son of a GDR worker. He studied directing at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film University, and in 1999 entered a masters at the Berlin Academy of Arts. That same year, he debuted his documentary Die Erklärung des ersten Kapitels Luce, and spent the following years working at the production company Next, along with Peter Voigt.

In 2008, Goldstein founded the production company Oktoberfilm alongside Susanne Binninger, where he has since produced several works. More recently, Goldstein released Adam and Evelyn, his first feature film as a director, at the Venice Film Festival in 2018, debuting the documentary The Communist shortly after, at the DOK Leipzig Festival.