Movies

Seventeen-year-old Martina has a paralyzing fear of heights, which prevents her from fulfilling her father’s wish that they perform a tightrope...

A foray through the Sorbian customs of central Lusatia, made in the GDR. This classic work of documentary filmmaking covers the course of a year, in...

Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red...

An intensive interview with the young protagonist Rainer about his non-conformist life is combined with scenes from his everyday life. The...

Although mocked by his collegaues, the dean of Salamanca sets off to find the legendary bird Turlipan.

In the late summer of 1958, party secretary Ernst Wollni is sent from Berlin to the village of Schwarzwalde to help set up an agricultural...

Old Otto Gratzick is a porter at DEFA and a great admirer of Asta Nielsen. When the famous actor Hermann Gschwindner dies shortly before the end of...

Two men and two women in a hotel.

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

17-year-old Susanne is a gymnast and has a chance to join the national team. But now, of all times, she is having problems in training. She can't...

The GDR has concluded an important agreement with a friendly country in the Middle East, in which it undertakes to supply and install pumping...

An adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".

Signs and wonders are said to be happening in Trutzlaff, a small village in Mecklenburg. The party secretary of the local LPG, Mattes Mathias, has...

A funny story about a friendship between the children of East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

The story of a young German boy and his father who befriend a Jewish family during WWII.

Documentary about the socialist politician and writer August Bebel

Documentary focusing on socialism and East German industry and labour, including a script of Lenin's most famous writings and speeches.

Fred works as an engineer and a test driver at a car company. His girlfriend Petra is a car mechanic - actually an ideal combination. However, the...