German Democratic Republic Movies

In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film history of the GDR. In a comprehensive...

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive communist from the Weimar Republic to his death in...

Former heads, senior officers and the rector of the MfS law school explain how the ministry functioned. The interviewees see themselves as legitimate...

In this East German teen musical, a group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation together on the Baltic coast. When a loud and obnoxious...

Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and discovers the East-German mentality and what is...

In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. They were deeply disillusioned because they felt...

Ina, just released from prison, returns to the place of her childhood in search of life and meets the occasional desperado Domühl in her...

A ship from the GDR fishing fleet is on its way home. The work is done, the hold full of fish. Captain Nipmerow could be satisfied with that, but he...

A high-rise building like any other: the tenants lived a "normal life", went to work, came home and paid no further attention to their neighbors....

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a...

In October 1987, the documentary film collective Amber Films from Newcastle became the first British film crew ever allowed to shoot in East Germany....

25 years after Erich Honecker's death, his personal secretary in Chile gives MDR an exclusive insight into the family's private archive. The material...

Documentary about the late-era German Democratic Republic

Short film about the GDR (DDR) and the FRG (BRD)