Movies

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody...

The nine sisters of light want to make the world a more beautiful and cheerful place and sing their song as they work. This enrages the Son of...

East German short film

Who doesn't know the dream of an unexpected million-dollar inheritance? For microbiologist Dr. Wolf, it seems to come true when an American lawyer...

In 1929 Berlin, the progressive editor-in-chief Bornstein is on trial for libel. An article in his magazine attempted to uncover the role that...

While her mother is working at the theater, Ulrike is afraid at home in the evenings. Then she meets Mampfotius Schmatz, the flying trash can, who...

The film explores the visit of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito to Germany, examining his political influence and interactions within the country....

A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and...

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat...

World War II is over and Heinrich, a young German boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act according to Communist principles in a small German...

Factory wife Jenny Treibel plans to engage her youngest, softened and weak son Leopold to teacher's daughter Corinna Schmidt. She wants to cross the...

A quote by literary figure Johannes R. Becher, first Minister of Culture of the GDR, supplies the title of this film about the 1982 International...

The first puppet animation film in the GDR shows the fairy tale about the quarrels of an unequal pair of animals, which is well-known in both German...

70 days after the government decision to build the Schwarze Pumpe combine, the foundation stone is laid. Trick explains the project and its...

1929: Marie Lehning, a farm worker from Warmsdorf on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the fisherman's son Mingo. Both complete an apprenticeship in...

The little African girl Asina is eagerly waiting for her new friend Karli. Karli is a young sailor from Rostock who has promised her a gift on his...

The brothers Theo and Gustav Benthin pull profits through smuggling in divided Germany: Theo in the West and Gustav in the East. The East German...

Teenagers at risk who are cared for and trained in a "Jugendwerkhof", a borstal - a problem almost totally suppressed officially. The film enquires...

A conversation between King Pyrrhus and Kineas about the increasingly terrible campaigns of conquest is illustrated. When world domination is...