Movies

East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girlfriend Karin...

The third part of the “Maxhütten Cycle.” The camera follows the steelworkers from the “Ernst Thälmann Socialist Labor...

The director of an art museum in Thuringia and an art dealer from Constance entered into an extremely lucrative business relationship. Director...

1780: When farmer Schmitzdorff in Wust, Brandenburg, is denied permission to marry his stepdaughter Sophie, he goes to Potsdam to obtain permission...

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

East German short film directed by Andrea Ritterbusch

The Bitterfeld lignite combine includes a large number of lignite plants, open-cast mines, power stations and briquette factories. The film presents...

Sportivnyy prazdnik molodyozhi (Youth Sports Festival) (1951) is an East German sports documentary co-directed by Andrew Thorndike and Dmitri...

Old Otto Gratzick is a porter at DEFA and a great admirer of Asta Nielsen. When the famous actor Hermann Gschwindner dies shortly before the end of...

Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red...

Through three loosely connected stories centered on individuals, Huisken and Menegoz depict the changes in urban and rural areas as well as the...

The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days....

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 documentary portrait of the everyday life of teenagers in Mecklenburg.

The real blue is the color with which potter Benito Guerrero makes his fortune. When he no longer receives the color from Germany as a result of the...

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...