Christoph Hübner will discuss the new German documentary movement, including Unreconcilable Memories, The Life of Alfons S., Miner, and other important works. Hübner, who has been making films since 1970, is a co-founder of the Ruhr Film Center, and has worked with filmmaker Gabriele Voss since 1978.

Unreconcilable Memories (Unversöhnliche Erinnerungen)
Forty years ago Germans confronted each other in the Spanish Civil War on both sides of the barricades. One side fought in the International Brigades, the other in the Condor Legion. One side fought in order to defend the Republic against the fascist military coup; the other was sent by Hitler to support Franco. This conflict is the starting point for the film. A mason who fought in the International Brigade and a retired General of the Bundeswehr who flew with the Condor Legion offer their recollections of the Weimar Republic, the War in Spain, the end of the Third Reich, and the founding years of the Federal Republic in Germany. The contrast between the mason and the retired General--their memories, their viewpoints, their different destinies within the Federal Republic--suggests a bitterly ironic conclusion as to the moral and political climate in present-day West Germany.