Movies

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girlfriend Karin...

With ZUG UM ZUG Barthel creates an amusing as well as bitingly macabre image-sound collage about the negative effects of smoking.

Actions in West Germany against the occupation statute and the general war treaties.

Children's film with animation and live action elements about how the lock in the Spree River works.

The documentary explores the construction of the "Schwarze Pumpe" gas complex, from the laying of the cornerstone in 1955 to the newly built...

Shortly before his retirement, Gustav Wanzka wants to return to his beloved profession as a teacher after years of working as a district school...

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This...

While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and have a child...

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in...

In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".

A film about problems in providing the population with housing that meets their needs. Affected citizens and representatives of the responsible state...

A teenager is found murdered, and the examining doctor recognizes her son's knife. The film works its way back to reveal how this situation came...

The protagonists life is repetitive. Every day she gets orders from the broken telephone. Every day she checks in with one of 52 cards and every day...

A cinematic visit to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The camera usually observes the visitors and paints their views on scenes of the ensemble of...

1971 documentary about the concentration camp Sachsenhausen commissioned for the National Memorial and Monument Sachsenhausen (GDR).

A couple of good friends find a bottle containing a little devil. The devil manages to trick the naive friends to release him. As a result, several...

1929: The little girl Józia has to go a few days without her mother, who is traveling abroad for political reasons. Another story is told to...