Movies

Around 1,500 people from more than forty countries met in Dresden for the 1984 congress of UNIMA, the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Founded...

An adaptation based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Agathopulus loves his luxurious life. He does not want to be bothered with helping to rebuild a destroyed city. Instead, he invents machines and...

A haunting love story using rotoscope and several fascinating optical techniques.

A very little man attacks two huge feet and fights with all his power against them until his downfall. While dying, he is still convinced that he is...

East German animation.

A film about problems in providing the population with housing that meets their needs. Affected citizens and representatives of the responsible state...

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...

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

East German short film

Die Konzessionen des Mister Urquhart (The Concessions of Mr. Urquhart) (1961) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike, Annelie...

Around 1500, a gentleman enters the barber's shop of a small town. He throws a purse and his dagger on the table and demands in a harsh tone that his...

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...

Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985.

A beautiful seagull is injured during a storm, ends up in a forest and joins a family of woodpeckers. She is rejected by the older members, but the...

He is not interested in all the beautiful flowers around him and would give anything for only one star from the sky. And what about the man in the...

From Ingres’ “Reclining Venus” to Gaugin’s Tahitian women – a museum guard presents famous female figures in art who,...

How the human right to freedom, dignity and inviolability are represented in practice - from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The animals and birds are enjoying themselves in a sunny forest clearing. A wolf is hunting in the neighboring thicket. He tracks down a deer, which...

Peter lives happily with his cat until one day a mouse appears. Peter tries to teach the animal how to catch mice. But it is playful and interested...