Movies

The film honors the achievements of the NVA in preparing and securing the World Festival. It documents the opening, the demonstrations of the GDR...

The GDR is disarming and NVA tanks and aircraft are being scrapped. Members of the army have their say.

East German short film

Short documentary

Three international students write letters home about their time in East Germany. Antonio Dega, a Cuban studying shipbuilding, writes home about the...

All sorts of shenanigans happen at the East German army's recreation home.

Ingeborg Tölke recaps her filmic biography, explains its elaborate technical conditions and talks about future core themes. She was presumably...

The married couple Angelika and Horst Butter sum up successes and setbacks of their joint amateur filmmaking. They now produce elaborate puppet...

The women’s committees in the GDR factories promote the technical and ideological-political qualification of female staff members. However, the...

The self-taught nature filmmaker Ingeborg Tölke uses quotes from literary encounters with the flora and fauna of the moor in a gentle approach...

Accompanying Liselotte Schließer, who worked full time as a technical draughtswoman, in her private and professional daily life. She talks...

Rolf Jarschel’s passion are lighters of every kind. He owns the largest collection in Europe with over 3,000 items. From Phoenician oil lamps...

Instructional short about the cleaning procedures on German trains.

Documentary film footage of ground personnel starting the propeller of an American B-17 bomber is repeated in a tightly edited, rhythmic structure....

Eberhard Kunstmann, a shipbuilder at the Neptune Wharf in Rostock, counsels collegues who are struggling with alchohol addiction.

Documentary about the Fifth Festival of Sorbian Culture 1980 in Bautzen.

Observations of everyday life in Krakow.

An overview of fascist tendencies in post-war western Germany, illustrated by various events and everyday examples, backed up with numerous...