Movies

The bird moves to the south in autumn and sings his most beautiful song to the lion there. When he flies back to the north, the lion sets off on the...

The documentary portrays the art historian Wilhelm von Bode as a realistic visionary.

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

The adventures of three friends from East Germany on the Black Sea.

A documentary highlighting several noteworthy locations along the railway line between Brest and Moscow.

The film depicts a situation that any family could find itself in and that is dealt with in different ways. The Buschner family has divorced. The...

It is the time before the First World War - in a fishing village on the Baltic Sea coast, the unusual love story of the young, ambitious lawyer...

During their holiday in Kraków, a young worker and a student are asked if their love, despite different views on life, will endure.

Documentary about the brothers Skladanowsky and their first films.

This short animation film, which is part of the series Musikalische Arabesken (Musical Arabesks), is a colorful and expressionistic interpretation of...

Documentary about a youth work brigade working on the construction of a tower block in Berlin-Marzahn

When the Nazis took power, the Jewish artist Leo Haas (1901-1983) was arrested in his Czechoslovakian hometown. He spent the next six years in...

Mrs. Alving has hidden her unhappy marriage to a morally depraved man from the world for years. To remove all doubt, she founds an orphanage in her...

The FRG is planning an attack on the GDR with the "Deko II" maneuver. This thesis is used to legitimize the construction of the "Anti-Fascist...

Der Fall Harzmann und andere (The Harzmann Case and Others) (1957) is a 31-minute East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike....

Berlin, end of the 1920s. Young factory workers Hete and Paul are expecting a child. When first Paul and then Hete become unemployed, the two look...

Stories from the first summer after the end of the war in Vietnam

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

South America at the beginning of the 1980s. A man is on the run from a group of armed pursuers. He does not manage to escape and is shot down...

Eighteen-year-old Wolfgang has just passed his A-levels and still has a few months to go before he has to start his military service. Instead of...