Prison Creative Arts Project is a Community Partner for this screening, which includes Broken -- The Women's Prison at Hoheneck by Volker Schlecht. Use discount code AAFF55_PCAP when ordering your tickets. Tickets available at aafilmfest.org .

Gabriele Stötzer and Birgit Willschütz were political inmates at Hoheneck Castle, the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. Their story is one of overcrowded cells, despotic hierarchies, ruthless everydays, and the enduring effects of incarceration. Most of all, however, it is about the crushing pressure of forced labor. Prisoners at Hoheneck manufactured millions of pantyhose, bed sheets, and other products for West German retailers, bringing enormous profits to both sides of the Iron Curtain.