The Sound of Freedom

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Photo copyright by Michael Teutsch

Sound of Freedom - My Life on an Airfield

Documentary, Digibeta, 62 minutes

Year of production: 2003

Directed by: Michael Teutsch and Wolfgang Ettlich

Produced by: Filmglas Munich

Versions: German

Helmut K. was a MIG 21 jet pilot and Wing Commander in the East German Air Force. His salary was well above average, he was irreversible and indispensable. After Germany´s reunification he lost his rank, his position and salaries.

With the money, that he and his wife had saved, he bought an Antonow II, world’s biggest flying double decker, without really knowing where this would lead him. Fifty miles south of Berlin he took a lease on an airfield with a gras-runway, formally used by the Russians when the the Iron Curtain still divided East and West Germany. On his little airfield he startet a charter flight busines, and his wife and his son became Helmut´s reliable supporters.

Helmut nose-dived into capitalism like if it were an air battle, and today private pilots from all over Germany are frequent visitors on his air field.

This film does not only tell the story of Helmut Kolditz which was changed by politics but also gives an insight in the privileged life an officer in the Communist Air-Force: his ideology, pride, sportsmanship, and an intriguing, almost naive pleasure when flying his beautiful but lethal weapon, the MIG 21.

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