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Hot Summer
1968-06-20
In this East German teen musical, a group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation togeth
Verwandte und Bekannte
1971-10-16
Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working cl
Die Schönste
1957-12-01
13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends wi
Husaren in Berlin
1971-06-25
Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
1954-03-09
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politicia
Der Nachfolger
1965-09-12
The Federal Republic of Germany. Journalist Rohmann, seriously injured in a car accident, is dying i
An Old Love
1959-10-04
Frieda and August Walkowiak celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. However, the marriage has been
Star-Crossed Lovers
1962-06-08
Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to pow
The Punch to the Jaw
1962-10-14
Carolin lives in the East and works in a West Berlin bar. After the building of the wall she tries t
Alarm at the Circus
1954-08-26
Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. They dream of a career in boxing and save
Spring Takes Time
1965-11-25
Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arr
Wenn Du zu mir hältst
1962-03-15
Brot und Rosen
1967-09-27
At the VII Party Congress of the SED, a delegate tells a reporter his life story: 18-year-old return
Klotz am Bein
1958-11-14
The construction of five houses for a workers' housing cooperative has been delayed due to a shortag
Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt
1960-06-08
Film by Frank Vogel.
Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden Secret
1960-07-29
East German adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". A boastful miller pretends that his
Polonia-Express
1957-11-07
Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains r
Die letzte Chance
1962-09-09
It is a fateful moment: during one of his concerts, Jewish pianist Klaus Seiser discovers Gestapo of
People with Wings
1960-08-24
This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the
Professor Mamlock
1961-05-17
A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing politi
Tanz am Sonnabend-Mord?
1962-01-19
A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler
Tote reden nicht
1963-01-06
After Elmers, the head of the publishing house, is reported missing, his son-in-law Jürgen Brandt is
Mord ohne Sühne
1962-06-27
Based on an authentic case from the 1920s. The head country constable Heinz Lippert arrests the Poli
Irrlicht und Feuer
1966-08-21
Jürgen Fohrmann works as a hauer underground. In the course of the coal crisis, his mine closes - he
Five Days, Five Nights
1961-02-27
Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of