Stasi FC

Cinema Documentary, Germany / UK / USA, 2023, 90`

The Stasi's preferred team, football club Berliner FC Dynamo, had a decade-long era of success before the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The Stasi allegedly used bribery, intimidation, surveillance, forced transfers and murder. The documentary uses personal testimony from survivors of the era combined with access to the Stasi Files, 111 linear kilometres of corridors containing previously unseen Stasi paperwork and communications from the Stasi Records Agency.

“Excellent. (…) An evidence that there is still astonishing stories emerging from behind the Iron Curtain.”
THE TIMES

”A “must see” for documentary fans and sports fans alike.”
RTE

"Stasi FC is a gripping feature documentary. (…) In East Germany during the late 1970s, the football team you chose to support was often seen as a political statement – and the matches were the only place where you could express your political opposition. This almost outrageous feature documentary shows how the Stasi used bribery, intimidation, surveillance and possibly even assassination to ensure success for their team, BFC Dynamo.“
THE GUARDIAN

"The games were rigged, players’ families were held and, eventually, all their fans deserted them. This is an astute look at the wild story of a Stasi-run East German club. (…)"
THE GUARDIAN

Written and Directed by DAN GORDON, ARNE BIRKENSTOCK and ZAKARIA RAHMANI
Producers - Erik Winker, Sebastian Lemke, Martin Roelly, Arne Birkenstock, Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers
Edited by Sam Billinge and Henk Drees
DOP - Thomas Schneider
Sound - Filipp Forberg, Thomas Supke
Music - Jörg Follert
Archive Producer: - Stephen Maier, Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks
Executive Producers - Hugo Grumbar, Tim Haslam, Richard J. Berthy, Wilson Rivas, Alex Spatt, Al Munteanu, Poppy Dixon, Jack Oliver
Production Manager - Laryssa Stone

A production of Fruitmarket and Corso Films in coproduction with Phiphen Pictures in cooperation with Embankment Films, Square One Productions and SKY UK. Supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, FFA German Federal Film Board and DFFF German Federal Film Fund