Preludio 11

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revol

At a French Fireside

Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldi

Ballade vom roten Mohn

Spain in the 1930s. The film tells of the fight of international troops against General Franco's arm

First Spaceship on Venus

A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated fro

The Russian Miracle

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by

Secret Archives on Elbe

The World War II. 1944. Nazis staged a cache which stores archival documents of its agents, rescued

Sun Seekers

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Sov

Der Reserveheld

The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy abou

Alfons Zitterbacke

Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politicia

The Black Battalion

A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.

Anna Susanna

Black Velvet

Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.

Der Fremde

After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only look

Geschwader Fledermaus

An American transport squadron led by former General Lee supports the French colonial army in Vietna

Spring Takes Time

Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arr

Heroin

This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting

Der Tod hat ein Gesicht

Three chemists unveil “Substance L,” a pesticide capable of eradicating all life without harming mat

The Sailor's Song

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of

Lot's Wife

The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine of

Eine Handvoll Noten

Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plan

Der Regimentskommandeur

Major Bert Harkus takes over the artillery regiment in Jesnack after graduating from the military ac

Das Traumschiff

The two half-orphans Reni and Rolf are 13 and 10 years old and they live with their grandmother in B

Meeting Point

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politici

Einer von uns

A wrestler finds his political interest and activism through sport. However, this is extremely dange

The Moorhound

Two boys are helping the border guards to find a mysterious moor hound used by spies to transfer mes

An Old Love

Frieda and August Walkowiak celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. However, the marriage has been

Ärzte

Professor Heger's son was shot by the Gestapo during the war. Dr. Bram was also responsible for his

Don't Forget My Little Traudel

17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.

KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

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

My Wife Wants to Sing

Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets

Tinko

After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work

Reise ins Ehebett

The captain of a ship of the merchant navy is always on the move because of his job – and has a diff

Sheriff Teddy

A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.

Das Kleid

Poor weavers Hans und Kumpan try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where ever

Ripe Cherries

Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted sev

Weil ich dich liebe …

Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His re

Hammer or Anvil

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Re

When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam

Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Producti

Verdacht auf einen Toten

Dr. Roth, a respected veterinarian and head of a state-owned stud farm, had accepted papers from a m

Der kleine Kuno

What do grown-ups actually do at night? Little Kuno has been asking himself this question a lot late

Senta's Gone Missing

The magnificent cow Senta has escaped from an LPG. Matuschek, a single farmer, joins the search. How

Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot

Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in f

The Dream of Captain Loy

An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to

Brot und Rosen

At the VII Party Congress of the SED, a delegate tells a reporter his life story: 18-year-old return

Der Lotterieschwede

Bornholm island in 1880, where quarry worker Johan Jönsson lives a miserable life with his wife and

The Song of the Trumpeter

Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one da

Fog

At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Roc

Die heute über 40 sind

Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen.

Kein Ärger mit Cleopatra

The black cooperative Cornwall boar achieves single-handedly, so to speak, what the LPG functionarie

Mord ohne Sühne

Based on an authentic case from the 1920s. The head country constable Heinz Lippert arrests the Poli

Damals in Paris

1944: Geneviève and René live in occupied Paris. They love each other, and the young woman looks fea

Jacke wie Hose

The Condemned Village

East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German

Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel

Paul Pospischiel loses his job in the great colliery collapse in the Ruhr, retrains and builds a new

Irrlicht und Feuer

Jürgen Fohrmann works as a hauer underground. In the course of the coal crisis, his mine closes - he