Uli M Schueppel on his film FROZEN STORIES (excerpt):

Six years after my father's death I sorted through his documents and found, among other things, the copy of a letter which he wrote in 1953 during an uprising in the Soviet labour camp Workuta, addressed to his "as yet unborn son":

"Your father - always bear this in mind - has to do it, because he loved liberty and man, and because in his time there was no choice but to fight."

In this film I am not concerned with an objective view of recent history. The documentation is composed of fragments of interviews where witnesses talk of their individual experiences. I attempt to create an image which evokes the intense atmoshere characteristic of the era. Above all, an image which enables the viewers to emtionally understand these men. This film does not parade any heroes of the resistance, it simply shows people who had the courage to "speak up" against injustice.

Recently I have been asked whether I learnt anything new about my father. Well, certainly I didn't, I would have to speak to him personally. It was not my aim to have these questions answerded. But at last I listened. And this is what this film is supposed to convey: to interest people in listening. To inspire young viewers to ask questions themselves.