Movies

Benno (Torsten Rennert), a bright boy from Berlin, is not really a problem case, although his parents have enough trouble with him. But that's not...

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with...

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat...

East German animated film.

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

Die Sieben vom Rhein (The Seven from the Rhine) (1954) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike. The 76-minute film...

East Berlin, late 1970s: Because she doesn't really have any particular career aspirations, Marta becomes a nurse. And since true love is a long time...

A quote by literary figure Johannes R. Becher, first Minister of Culture of the GDR, supplies the title of this film about the 1982 International...

In long takes with few cuts, women talk about their lives. All the conversations are shot in interior rooms, attesting to trust and great candour....

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 mechanic, Peter Papenbold, is giving all his free time to volunteer in the children's sport school. When he's asked to switch to teaching...

Ten-year-old Lutz Paschke, son of detective captain Paschke, is an enthusiastic but often overzealous detective. He roams his town with his basset...

A guide to vegetable self-sufficiency in postwar Germany.

What are Ilona Herfurt and her boyfriend Dietmar Freistrath doing in the old mine? Where does the money come from that her son Jimmy finds under the...

Die Novemberrevolution 1918 (The November Revolution 1918) (1956) is a short East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike....

Rudi Prange is released from prison for good behavior. He gets a job in a transport unit but gets involuntarily involved in a smuggling business by a...

The leader of a group of young technicians tells us the story of the "Proxima Centauri Company", which may one day become reality. Four researchers...

Mozglyakov, a young noble playboy, brings great "luck" to the small town of Mordassov: he brings them a prince in the flesh whom he has picked up in...

A young artist receives a telegram: his girlfriend has a stopover at Potsdam station. She wants to use the time to see him... The movie tells of...