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Amok (1985)
Directed by Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
Documentary · 14m
The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the history of the USA at that point of time. The story of a mass murder in San Diego on July 18 1984 is told by showing reports of a local TV station. It turns out that the amok was partly caused by traumatic experiences during the Vietnam War.
Cast
Gerhard Scheumann
Jürgen Hentsch
Crew
- Director
- Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
- Writer
- Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
- Editor
- Traute Wischnewski
Details
- Release date
- 1985-09-06
- Runtime
- 14m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German, English
- Countries
- East Germany
- Production
- DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme