Movies

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in...

The film depicts the military academy "Friedrich Engels", the highest military training facility in the GDR.

Die alte neue Welt (The Old New World) (1977) is an East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The film explores the evolution...

A hard-hearted nobleman chases away all of his aged servants. Only one thresher manages to stay in service. However, he cannot do the required work...

Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working...

Actions in West Germany against the occupation statute and the general war treaties.

A close film adaptation of Johann Strauss' "Fledermaus". Notary Falke uses Prince Orlofsky's ball, at which the distinguished gentlemen of Viennese...

Entertainment in the GDR is the subject of this film, a wide field with many critical but also successful aspects. Examples from various kinds of...

Die Konzessionen des Mister Urquhart (The Concessions of Mr. Urquhart) (1961) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike, Annelie...

Aschenbrödel (Cinderella), the fairy tale, is a fantastic mixture of the miraculous and the everyday, based on the well-known folk tale by the...

The documentary explores the construction of the "Schwarze Pumpe" gas complex, from the laying of the cornerstone in 1955 to the newly built...

How young people were manipulated to join the war during the Imperial Era.

TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his...

The film tells the well-known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, in which the little girl Little Red Riding Hood is led astray by the wolf, devoured...

The film follows the career of Karl-Theodor Molinari from major in the Wehrmacht to general in the Bundeswehr. Authentic archive material and...

The rooster Schreihals works diligently, while the two mice Singeschön and Springeschön prefer to play and dance all day long. When the...

DEFA documentary in honor of the 750th birthday of the city of Berlin.

When Michael was released from the Jugendwerkhof at the age of 16, he said: "... There has to be controversy to make progress, to achieve something...

The hunt for gold - that is the motive that leads different types of adventurers to the gold mining town of Dawson in Alaska. The main characters in...