East Berlin Movies

In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the western part of the city legally as well as...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours before crossing the border that the Wall is...

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

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

A lifeguard at Lake Müggel has his hand bitten off and the marks indicate a shark attack. The lake is closed to the public by extending a local...

On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in...

Live concert filmed on March 4, 1990 at Werner Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin.

Frank, a tenth grade student, falls in love with his classmate Regine. His father is a well-connected plant manager in the GDR; Regine's mother is a...

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in...

In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do...

Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a...

Documents the remodeling of the Ostbahnhof in Berlin Friedrichshain into the central station of the GDR.

East German documentary/propaganda film about Berlin Wall border guards

East Berlin disco movie.

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall....

Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.

East Berlin, 1985. Lars, a young Stasi Lieutenant, discovers his parents are underground smugglers. Now, with his commanding officer over for dinner,...

A documentary and film essay about the artist scene in East Berlin during the 1950s.