Because the citizens of the GDR did not want to do what party doctrine required them to, an enormous surveillance apparatus was necessary. Setting Up an Observation Camera is an instructional film made by the Ministry for State Security. One does not see much, save for how a camera overlooking a public square is shakily set up in an apartment. Through the details, like a a petty bourgeois curtain as camouflage, we see how the allegedly revolutionary GDR was in fact a limiting, bourgeois system. [Marcel Schwierin]