Verwandte und Bekannte

Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working cl

Ernst Thälmann

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader

Meines Vaters Straßenbahn

Ralph grows up in pre-war Dresden as the eldest son of a principled and orderly streetcar conductor.

Hund über Bord

It's the holidays and a German freighter captain takes his whole family - his wife, ten-year-old Kla

The Flying Dutchman

In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks r

The Sinking of Emma

A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their fr

Karlemanns Brücke

Karlemann is very often found in his own 'Robinson world', a secluded place on earth. There he trave

Das hölzerne Kälbchen

On a pasture in a small village stand the cows and calves of the herder Bürle. Since many years, the

Nikolaikirche

The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her

Tambari

Tambari - it's a name of an old boat which children of a small village on a Baltic sea shore got fro

Chronicle of a Summer

In the late fifties a large industrial complex was built near Schwedt, in the GDR. This low budget f

KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created

Jacob the Liar

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio

Der Preis der Schönheit

Der Mann und sein Name

The young Walter Retzlow, drafted into the guard team of a foreign labor factory in the last year of

Alwin auf der Landstraße

Ironically, at the beginning of the summer holidays, Alwins strict father has grounded him to get hi

Ich - Dann eine Weile nichts

The motto for the 13-year-old narrator Bärbel Fielow, as far as school is concerned, must always be

Die Moral der Banditen

In a post-war village, children and young people come together to form a gang to do justice their ow

Julia lebt

GDR border guard Gunter Rist is a young man from humble homes. During a swimming competition he meet

The White Dove

A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. A

Who's Afraid of the Devil

Based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm: Jakob is a poor farmer′s boy. Because of his timidity t

Optimistische Tragödie

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Fre

Zum Beispiel Josef

Josef Neumann has always been an outsider to society, and at the age of 30, he has already lived an

Taubenjule

Eleven-year-old Jella lives with her mother in a rural idyll in which both feel at home and comforta

Einer vom Rummel

19-year old Benjamin, called Ben, works as a cashier on the fairground und is impressing girls with

Trace of Stones

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses un

The Red Violin

When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the w

On the Way to Lenin

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home,

Jorinde und Joringel

The girl Jorinde and the foundling Joringel grow up sheltered in a farmer's cottage behind the moor,

Godfather Death

Once upon a time, there was a poor farmer who had thirteen children. Since the farmer was so poor, t

Ein Mann, der sterben muß

Unknown assailants threaten the life of British scientist Dr. Ronald Fergusson. Only by chance does

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