Movies

When Martin returns from war, he finds that nothing is the way it once was. He watches a few remaining villagers leave offerings in the town square...

Two UFA employees travel by car from West Berlin to Potsdam's Sanssouci Palace together with Ministerial Director Schimmelpfennig to persuade...

A railway line is to be laid through remote Lusatian farmland. Surveyors herald the “new era” with their work. The events also leave...

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local...

More than two decades ago, a country in Europe existed that marked the border to a different political and economic system, yet was the very heart of...

Two adolescents, Sauly and Mick, get to know each other while hitchhiking and stick together for the long haul. They both want to reach the ocean,...

Short film about electric railroad lines

A little mouse who is fed up with her bad life in winter wishes to be a kitten. The magic lantern grants her wish. As soon as she becomes a cat, she...

The village is still in full bloom, but the sun is already low in the sky. Chubby-cheeked Mr. Winter is creeping up on the village. Under his icy...

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...

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe)...

Moy de Tohá and Isabel Letelier tell their story. They are the widows of two Defence Ministers of the Unidad Popular, who knew too much.

A film about the Germany meeting at Pentecost 1964. It focuses on questions and answers from young Germans from East and West during a club...

While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and have a child...

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

The electrician Peter Drews is a brigadier at a Baltic Sea dockyard. His men are among the most reliable and diligent workers at the dockyard. Their...

Angela Davis visited the GDR in late summer 1972. For months, people all over the world had fought for her release. In Berlin, Leipzig, and...

Max and Tüte are super excited about a math-whiz robot at an exhibition. The boys smuggle him out so he can do their math homework. But the...