Movies

Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers....

It’s only after the separation from her husband that another man tells her how valuable she is: the Chladek family, she’s a teacher,...

Rainer Burmeister (director) tells a story about everyday working life of 46 young Mozambican people in the GDR who were employed as contract...

Vienna in March 1945: seven people - three women, three men and a child - are spilled in a basement after a bomb attack. First, the emergency...

The Nörgel clan divides the labor and produce more hats than they need for themselves. As consequence, they look into an exchange of products at...

In 1930s Berlin, a woman’s life unravels as her unemployed husband succumbs to Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers, while her...

Ten-year-old Ole is full of mischief. He attempts to fly and is hospitalized with a broken leg. When he sees a Sherlock Holmes movie on TV, however,...

1971 documentary about the concentration camp Sachsenhausen commissioned for the National Memorial and Monument Sachsenhausen (GDR).

A master thief returns home. There he is threatened with the gallows if he fails to solve the tasks set by the count. So he has to steal the count's...

The little African girl Asina is eagerly waiting for her new friend Karli. Karli is a young sailor from Rostock who has promised her a gift on his...

In the small town of Benderath, Jewish high school student Jakob is the victim of hostility because of his religion. He forms the student group...

East German short film directed by Andrea Ritterbusch

A creative and skilful montage as well as dramatically spot-on sound and music effects are combined in a snappy plot to offer a mordant commentary on...

The Grand Fleet Parade on the Baltic Sea on November 4, 1960 to mark the renaming of the GDR's naval forces to the "Volksmarine". The renaming...

The story of the steel melter Martin Hoff, whose factory delegates him to a drama school, corresponds to the real life of the actor Manfred Krug....

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

A writer researching an international partisan group during World War II meets with a contemporary witness. Together, they visit the sites of the...

On the 160-hectare grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace Park, the Berlin Animal Park was established in the 1950s with the active support of...