Aus Liebe zum Volk (I Love You All)

Mr S. has spent 20 years working as an official “in the service of society”. He performs his duties out of love; unconditional, total love for “his people”. However, his is also a love that is blind and destructive. But then, the wind changes, and the regime he works for comes to an end. Finding himself about to be made redundant, Mr S’s whole world collapses. Bereft of his workplace he sees no future, no prospects. He sits alone in the office that will soon no longer belong to him. Shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall, the Ministry of State Security is disbanded.The Stasi has come to an end. Major S. was one of the Ministry’s officers. On his last day at work, he talks in detail about his life and the past 20 years he has spent working at the heart of this institution. Mr S’s report is interwoven with original footage of the cellars of the ‘Gauck’ building, which housed the authority that dealt with the winding up of the Stasi, but also with images from various private and public archives. A film about surveillance and blindness; about conviction and disillusionment.