Movies

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...

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

The first puppet animation film in the GDR shows the fairy tale about the quarrels of an unequal pair of animals, which is well-known in both German...

The second part of the “Maxhütte Cycle.” The camera follows Hans Vogel, the head of the pig iron division, during a nine-hour...

The first part of the “Maxhütte Cycle”, featuring six scenes from the control room of the old rolling mill at...

It’s only after the separation from her husband that another man tells her how valuable she is: the Chladek family, she’s a teacher,...

Karl, Katrinchen and Spatz are visiting their grandmother every christmas. The small village is covered up by snow and so the three kids build a...

In the spring of 1965, Polish citizen Sheybal visits the town of Genthin. He knows his way around the sugar factory. He had to work there as a...

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...

Three military drivers are introduced. They bear a special responsibility in their collective and often fulfill a dual function.

Brigitte, Carola and Susi can hardly believe their luck. They have hit the jackpot and won a brand new Trabi! Unfortunately, none of the three have a...

A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against...

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,"...

Young people talk to the camera about their ideas of marriage and plans for their future lives.

The country is portrayed before and after the storm of the military to the government palace “La Moneda” when Salvador Allende is killed...

A report on the oldest citizen of the GDR at the time, Emma Wagner from Gotha.

Shortly before his retirement, Gustav Wanzka wants to return to his beloved profession as a teacher after years of working as a district school...

Through three loosely connected stories centered on individuals, Huisken and Menegoz depict the changes in urban and rural areas as well as the...

Documentary about the Potsdam landscape painter and art teacher Hubert Globisch.