Movies

Short film about the GDR state border

The Prince of Porcelain, who only knows how to play with vain ladies in a cool porcelain world, wants to own the poor potters' myrtle tree. It was...

Chicken Gock and the mice Singeschön and Springeschön want to celebrate a sports festival. It is to begin with a big race. At the starting...

The film reports on the return of Soviet units from Czechoslovakia (CSSR) to their stationing areas in the GDR. It depicts the reception by the...

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...

What the trick and illusion artists Lina and Richard Kortmann have to offer their audience is by no means sensational. Their performances are too...

The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim to power and its aesthetic effect. The basis for...

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in...

This color documentary reports on the winter sports resort of Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest. Vacationers and members of the FDGB, as well as...

This short film is an animated interpretation of the Suite No. 4 by the music ensemble Bayon, which was founded in East Germany in 1971....

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....

Karlemann is very often found in his own 'Robinson world', a secluded place on earth. There he travels the river in his special all-weather boat, and...

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

Palucca follows the legendary Dresden dancer and dance teacher Gret Palucca (1902–1993) as she introduces her students to dance as an art form....

Silvia and her boyfriend Lutz, both aged twenty, work as jockeys at a big racing stable and have their whole life in front of them. But while Lutz...

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

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...

A tailor drives his three sons out of the house because he believes they have maliciously starved his beloved goat. The sons prove themselves abroad...

Two men and two women in a hotel.