Movies

The everyday work and life perspectives of a family of farmers from Brandenburg.

"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropolis of East Berlin. As an emphatically lively,...

During the Battle of Stalingrad, five German soldiers and officers are taken prisoner of war by the Soviets. In an interview, they talk about the...

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

This portrait of East German sculptor and graphic artist Fritz Cremer (1906-1993) shows the artist at work in his studio and some of his art works,...

This silhouette-animated short exposes the Pinochet government through comparisons to Hitler's Nazi regime.

An adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".

Prague 1913: The family of newspaper publisher Alexander Reither, traditionally reunited for a New Year's dinner, moves along convoluted and...

A monument is revealed. It is a figure, pointing in a particular direction, its arm out-stretched. The masses greet it with approval.

Martin, the young protagonist of this hybrid documentary interspersed with staged scenes, is afraid of school, his father, and the future in general....

One day the meadow king notices that the grass has grown so high that he can no longer see over it. He investigates and finds out that the sheep have...

Portrait of the industrialist Walter Hunger from Frankenberg in Saxony. He left the German Democratic Republic in 1958 with his family and closest...

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...

Sigmund Jähn, (East) Germany's first man in space, and the preparations for the space flight are portrayed.

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to...

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

Karl Erp is a middle-aged man with two children and a boring marriage. After starting an exciting affair with his intern, Miss Broder, he leaves his...

“We no longer stand before a choice between peace and war, but between peace and annihilation (Brecht 1947)”, one of the posters in the...

Three men shipwrecked on a desolate island are granted a helpful gift by a mermaid, only to misuse it entirely.

A man visits a variety of locations in an attempt to find a place free of noise and distraction, only to discover he may be looking for something...