Movies

When Michael was released from the Jugendwerkhof at the age of 16, he said: "... There has to be controversy to make progress, to achieve something...

Four generations of one familiy live in the heart of the Spreewald, close to the coalmines and power stations. From their elders, the children have...

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his...

Nine peasant woodcarvers from Poland, their works, their thoughts, and the unexpected elements in each personal view. They draw their themes from...

Rooster, cat, dog and donkey become homeless in old age for various reasons, wander and sing together. This gruesomely funny singing may not be...

Three kids from a small village in Mecklenburg decide to sneak away to East-Berlin in order to gift Angela Davis a lucky pig.

This color documentary reports on young Chilean pioneers in the capital of the GDR. We experience the development of their pioneer newspaper from the...

Die Prüfung (The Examination) (1952) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike. Running at approximately 35 minutes, the film...

Three gangsters overpower a night watchman and try to break into a safe. Opening the door triggers an alarm and they flee through the window without...

A young political prisoner in World War II is slowly going insane in his lonely cell. Only a fly, a metaphor for a woman, keeps him alive - but also...

Martin′s and his girlfriend′s Kathrin′s childhood comes to an abrupt end in 1920, when their Mecklenburg village is drawn into the...

Paul Schulte takes a spa stay on the Baltic Sea to have his heart condition treated. His wife Barbara accompanies him and finds interest in the...

An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new...

On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to the West. The initiator is the philistine...

The devil begrudges Kasper his beautiful house. He wants to capture him and force him to build a new devil's house. But Kasper is clever enough to...

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...

In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman,...