Movies

Observations of everyday life in Krakow.

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

The first puppet animation film in the GDR shows the fairy tale about the quarrels of an unequal pair of animals, which is well-known in both German...

Presentation of the economic upswing in the GDR, emphasizing the discovery of the process for the production of high-temperature lignite coke and the...

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

This documentary about the Buchenwald concentration camp features interviews with survivors who describe their memories and experiences. The...

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...

Documentary about the Potsdam landscape painter and art teacher Hubert Globisch.

Chicken Gock and the two mice are doing a big clean-up. Unfortunately, only Gock takes the work seriously.

After the workers’ revolt on June 17th, 1953 this film disappeared in the archives until 1997.

The first part of the “Maxhütte Cycle”, featuring six scenes from the control room of the old rolling mill at...

Actor Manfred Krug reports on winter sports in the GDR. Numerous topics are covered in short segments: promoting young talent in winter sports,...

The documentary deals with the subject of "big city noise" in a humorous and satirical, but also serious way, using the example of East Berlin,...

A young artist receives a telegram: his girlfriend has a stopover at Potsdam station. She wants to use the time to see him... The movie tells of...

The motto for the 13-year-old narrator Bärbel Fielow, as far as school is concerned, must always be the opinion in class.

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working...

Overnight, Ernst has to leave his mother Agathe and Nazi Germany for Paris because he took part in a protest. But there, all traces of him are lost....

During their holiday in Kraków, a young worker and a student are asked if their love, despite different views on life, will endure.