Mit vierzig hat man noch Träume

Helene Sonntag, 40, unmarried and a teacher. She has long dreamed of happy partnership, but things t

Son

Set against the backdrop of post-war Germany, the screen adaptation of Siegfried Lenz’s short story

Ich, Thomas Müntzer, Sichel Gottes

1523. The Protestant theologian Thomas Müntzer is entrusted with the pastorate by the 'Allstedt Coun

Osceola

Florida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being moved

Der Leutnant Yorck von Wartenburg

The young officer Count Yorck von Wartenburg - he bears one of the most famous names of the German p

Die erste Reihe

Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, b

Außenseiter

Paul Schulte takes a spa stay on the Baltic Sea to have his heart condition treated. His wife Barbar

Filmemacher

They are just 17 years old when Gaby and Eva receive the offer to play in a feature film that ambiti

Radiokiller

Enemy secret services from the West had used modern technology for the "cold war", i.e. the confront

Jugendweihe

Every year in the spring the pupils of the 8th grade in the GDR receive the 'Jugendweihe' and are ad

Optimistische Tragödie

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

Familie Rechlin

Berlin in the 60s. The construction of the Berlin Wall not only divides the city, but also separates

Kunstraub

The director of an art museum in Thuringia and an art dealer from Constance entered into an extremel

Clausewitz - Lebensbild eines preußischen Generals

In November 1831, the 51-year-old Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz burns the first chapter

Ich will nach Hause

Nachtspiele

Two men and two women in a hotel.

Ernst Thälmann

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

Apprehension

Inge Herold is in her mid-thirties. She is divorced and lives with her 15-year-old son. She works as

Meines Vaters Straßenbahn

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

Tödliche Diamanten

Nikolaikirche

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

Die Gäste der Mathilde Lautenschläger

Katrin and Dieter really want a new car, but don't have enough money. They therefore decide to host

Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren

When the farm boy Felix is born with a caul, the rumor spreads in no time that this boy can succeed

Kalter Engel

What are Ilona Herfurt and her boyfriend Dietmar Freistrath doing in the old mine? Where does the mo

Stadtlandliebe

Sam and Anna are part of the hip, vegan, green, eco-friendly, upper-class subculture of Berlin. Anna

Mein blauer Vogel fliegt

Based upon a true story, the movie centers on the German communist Robert, a "Kapo" in a concentrati

Selbstversuch

Television film based on a short story by Christa Wolf.

A City Is Blackmailed

A village is blackmailing the city of Leipzig.

Die Frau des Heimkehrers

The elaborately staged and lovingly furnished melodrama tells the moving story of a wife and mother

Lauras Wunschzettel

Laura Sebald lives with her daughter Anna in Berlin, where she runs a small goldsmith's store. Despi

Liebe auf Bewährung

After the death of her husband, the well-off widow Juliane Willbrand sinks into a great void. Her ef

Die Stunde der Offiziere

A well documented re-enaction of the July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, aka Opera

Das Schloß meines Vaters

Ich habe nein gesagt

Pi - Die Polizistin

A Strange Love

After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the nig

Auf dem Sprung

Gottfried and Markus are friends who have done everything together so far: School, vocational traini

Alleinstehend

Morning Stars

A Soviet tank breaks through the front line during the January 1945 offensive.

Bear Ye One Another's Burden...

At the beginning of the 50s, two extremely disparate men meet in a private sanatorium for consumptiv

Die Bestie

Moscow in the 1920s. A film about the pogroms in southern Russia is being made in a studio. The name

White Cloud Carolin

It's no big secret that twelve-year-old Hannes is in love with his classmate Carolin, who he compare

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living

Der Mantel des Ketzers

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

School Ghost

Carola is a mischievous girl who doesn't care much for school- except for sports and recess, of cour

Zum Teufel mit Harbolla

Even the military academy can't stop kind-hearted officer Gottfried Engelhardt from seeing the world

Zauber um Zinnober

The magician of the court feels offended by princely arbitrariness and senses for revenge. For this,

Die eigene Haut

Eighteen-year-old Wolfgang has just passed his A-levels and still has a few months to go before he h

Solo für Martina

Martina and Jürgen are lovers in the GDR. She is studying economics in Leipzig, he is preparing for

The Blue Light

Hans the farmer is drawn into war as a soldier. Returning from the front, having been defrauded of h

Abschiedsdisco

A village has to be destroyed for coal mining. Henning, a 15 years old boy, who wants to visit his g

Scheusal

Three decades ago, they performed as the pop quartet "Altmarkspatzen" and felt great in front of the

Flieger

During a training flight, the experienced MiG fighter pilot Major Klaus Kornhod almost crashes. An i

Alaska-Kids großer Coup

The hunt for gold - that is the motive that leads different types of adventurers to the gold mining

Büttners Truhe

Pensioner Kagel sets up a village museum and wants to donate the farmhouse parlor to the district mu

Das Double

Der Aufstand

June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their gover