Movies

Holidays in colony (in Thuringia and on the Baltic) of the children of workers of a chemical industry in the DDR.

Eighteen-year-old Wolfgang has just passed his A-levels and still has a few months to go before he has to start his military service. Instead of...

East German stop-motion animation version of the famous fairy tale, notable for its Beast appearing as an elephant.

The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remarks on the Oberhausen 66 Film Festival,"...

An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.

A quote by literary figure Johannes R. Becher, first Minister of Culture of the GDR, supplies the title of this film about the 1982 International...

Documentary about a youth work brigade working on the construction of a tower block in Berlin-Marzahn

The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim to power and its aesthetic effect. The basis for...

The FRG is planning an attack on the GDR with the "Deko II" maneuver. This thesis is used to legitimize the construction of the "Anti-Fascist...

They are just 17 years old when Gaby and Eva receive the offer to play in a feature film that ambitious Hamburg filmmakers want to make. Despite...

Report from the party congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) from April 5 to 7, 1982 in Weimar.

A hard-hearted nobleman chases away all of his aged servants. Only one thresher manages to stay in service. However, he cannot do the required work...

A biographical documentary about Ernst Thälmann.

The television play by Werner Bernhardy depicts episodes from the life of Heinrich Zille as well as his much-praised "Milljöh". It tells of...

GDR and West Berlin in the 1950s. Hans Nettermann, a designer at the "Komet" bicycle factory, is a favorite of the BSG road riders. His dream is to...

In the 1930s, the Soviet ship "Chelyuskin" embarked on an expedition to the Northern Ocean. But soon there is an accident in the ice and the team can...

What are Ilona Herfurt and her boyfriend Dietmar Freistrath doing in the old mine? Where does the money come from that her son Jimmy finds under the...