Movies

Agathopulus loves his luxurious life. He does not want to be bothered with helping to rebuild a destroyed city. Instead, he invents machines and...

An album of moving illustrations showing the history of communism, from the rise of the first trade unions in the 1820s to the present day...

Real part: A puppet animation film studio. The director, cameraman, animators and lighting technicians set up a scene in which a streetcar car with...

Peter is a good football goalkeeper, but as much as his team can rely on him, he takes it so little exactly with his duties, with schoolwork and...

Film report on the VII District Children's and Youth Spartakiade in Quedlinburg, combined with a presentation of sports education in the GDR in...

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots...

Boatman Ahrens from Hamburg has a sense of justice when it comes to finding a missing girl. He goes down illegal paths when he breaks into someone...

A haunting love story using rotoscope and several fascinating optical techniques.

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

Based on the life experiences of photographer Horst Sturm, the story of Kollwitzplatz in Berlin is retold.

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

Kunz, the poor day laborer who is richly blessed with children, discovers the secret of the cave in the Simeliberg while collecting wood. Robbers...

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

Hier deutsche Volkspolizei (1972) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike and Peter Vatter. Commissioned by the Ministry of the...

Documentary about the Fifth Festival of Sorbian Culture 1980 in Bautzen.

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men....

Fiete is nine years old and loves fishing. Each afternoon he spends hours sitting at a creek in his village. On one of these afternoons the peace and...

Hannes, 22, and his girlfriend Tanja have to realize that there are things in their relationship that have an unfavourable effect on their...

Short film about foreign affairs