Störenfried Ermittlungen zu Oskar Brüsewitz (Hommage Frank Thöner)

Less known are the activities of Frank Thöner as a filmmaker and as a distributor. At the beginning of the 1990s, he organized the distribution of a film that was very important to him and for which he undauntedly broke new ground. On August 8, 1976, the spectacular self-immolation of the protestant pastor Oskar Brüsewitz ended a trial of strength that had lasted for years. Against the resistance of the local GDR powers, the quarrelsome pastor tried with cunning and humor to expand the state-allocated free space of his church. A provincial farce. But in Prussian. And with a fatal ending.… >>>