The film document Berlin-Milieu. Ackerstraße 1973, edited by Veronika Otten, is visible evidence that the SFD made use of its privilege to document taboo subjects. The film editor portrays the day-to-day life of Berliners who live in the border zone next to the Berlin Wall. She shows detailed, soundless images of East German border protection systems and offers brief insights into an »antisocial environment«, as it is referred to in an insert title. Neither the film images in Ackerstraße nor their form of presentation without commentary or other reception-controlling means would have been conceivable in the DEFA and TV films that were being produced at the same time.