Movies

A farmer owns a pear tree, three daughters and a chicken. Every year he has to deliver three baskets of pears to the king. Once, when he is unable to...

The documentary deals with the subject of "big city noise" in a humorous and satirical, but also serious way, using the example of East Berlin,...

Two hands prepare a paper cutting... They create a tailor made from black cardboard and let him go into a paper world. He comes alive and together...

A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys...

A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World? (1932). Directed...

East German short documentary

Unknown assailants threaten the life of British scientist Dr. Ronald Fergusson. Only by chance does the attempt to shoot him in the street fail....

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody...

Four small-time crooks occasionally enlist the help of their girlfriends to earn a living by robbing cars. It is only when a former television...

An adaptation based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

The documentary tells the story of Anke, Birgit and Katrin, who are training to become cattle breeders and graduate from high school. During this...

The motto for the 13-year-old narrator Bärbel Fielow, as far as school is concerned, must always be the opinion in class.

In front of audience estimated to be 500,000, The Boss performs a historic show

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...

On the way to the holiday camp, 16-year-old Steffi falls in love with Norbert, whom she has known for a long time from visiting grandfather in...

The land in poor Hassan's Central Asian homeland is stony and lacks water. Every day, he gazes longingly at the well in the garden of the rich...

Jewish and Christian music merge in this film about one of the oldest choirs in Germany, the choir in Magdeburg Cathedral, which has been performing...