Movies

When Jacques Offenbach's melodies are heard, the delighted audience usually asks very little about the man who inspired the great composer with his...

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.

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems...

Dammbeck relocates the Leipzig-based artists' circle known as Herbstsalon to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland, which in 1929 was the venue of the...

Shortly after the construction of the wall in August 1961, many guests visit the East German army troops who protect the wall.

A poor woodcutter lived in the forest with his daughters Katrin and Else. Else was quarrelsome and lazy, Katrin was hard-working and good to people...

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

Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation

Mauritius Halbermann, nicknamed "Mauts", works as an advertising manager for Gravo-Druck, a state-owned print company. Mauts, a man obsessed with his...

Ete and Ali are discharged from the army. Since Ete knows that his wife is having an affair, he doesn't want to go home. Ali tries to persuade his...

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...

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

"Das Jahr 1945" is a documentary which describes the last 128 days of World War II in Europe. The film covers the course of the war in chronological...

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

The film reports on the return of Soviet units from Czechoslovakia (CSSR) to their stationing areas in the GDR. It depicts the reception by the...

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remarks on the Oberhausen 66 Film Festival,"...

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...