The Red Orchestra

The "Red Orchestra" refers to an important resistance network in Nazi Germany and at the same time to a Soviet spy ring in Paris/Brussels. In contrast to the White Rose and the Stauffenberg Circle, the resistance fighters of the "Red Orchestra" were denounced as "traitors to the fatherland" for a long time. While in the FRG former Gestapo people discredited the "Red Orchestra" as a communist spy network, in the GDR the state security appropriated the allegedly communist network for its own purposes. Thus, the memory of the "Red Orchestra" was historically distorted. Only today, on the basis of current historical research, can the dramatic story be comprehensively told with the help of film clips and statements by descendants and historians. The story of the resistance fighters of the "Red Orchestra" is therefore more topical than ever. A highly exciting story about European resistance activities during the Nazi regime. "Red Orchestra" provides a comprehensive introduction to the topic of resistance movements under the Nazi regime and spans the historical arc to the Cold War and German-German history. An original and unusual visual concept: the film not only reflects on historical content, but also questions the historical and media treatment of this content. The stories and fates of the resistance fighters touch and captivate at the same time.