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Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legalize" their relationship. Jette loves him, but the...
Hostess
Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is...
Star-Crossed Lovers
In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out,...
Her Third
World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being...
Janus Head
Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in...
Preludio 11
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.
Naked Among Wolves
Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a...
The Legend of Paul and Paula
In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota people. Gold diggers, profiteers and...
Trail of the Falcon
Hans the farmer is drawn into war as a soldier. Returning from the front, having been defrauded of his pay by his own king, he makes his way home. On...
The Blue Light
Otto Scheidel (Manfred Krug) has been captain of the Elbe steamer Jenissei for over twenty years, but his ship, the last of its kind, is going to be...
Feuer unter Deck
Zement
Radiokiller
Der erste Urlaubstag
Alma schafft alle
Alma Krause is the proud owner of a thoroughbred French bully. Even otherwise, she nurses and harbors several two- and four-legged friends in her...
Viechereien
Hans im Glück
Günter and Gudrun Piesold are very busy with their careers as a TV comedian and an actress, so Grandma takes care of household chores and...
Der Mann, der nach der Oma kam
Ach, du fröhliche
Das Buschgespenst
Frank and Kamminke study informatics in Leipzig and have developed a program that enables a computer to automatically find and correct errors in its...
Two Strange Characters
The Germanic pagan deity, The Rainmaker, has fallen asleep, causing widespread drought and poverty. A young couple, Andreas and Maren must trick an...
The Rainmaker
The story of Ulzana, an Apache chief who has reached a rapprochement with the local Mexican population and generously extends it to whites who travel...
Apache
The Just People of Kummerow
Nackt unter Wölfen
The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she...
Gritta of the Rats' Castle
Ten-year-old Ole is full of mischief. He attempts to fly and is hospitalized with a broken leg. When he sees a Sherlock Holmes movie on TV, however,...
Unternehmen Geigenkasten
Ernst Thälmann
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work...
I Survived Certain Death
The story of the steel melter Martin Hoff, whose factory delegates him to a drama school, corresponds to the real life of the actor Manfred Krug....
Auf der Sonnenseite
Fariaho
Matulla und Busch
Kleiner Mann im großen Glück
Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his friend Alfons, a World...
The Song of the Trumpeter
Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now,...
Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for...
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the...
Shots Under the Gallows
For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day as a master at the plant has come. He...
Bankett für Achilles
After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to...
Carbide and Sorrel
Shortly after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933, preparations were underway to silence the members of the socialist and...
Der Teufelskreis
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
Viel Lärm um nichts
This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary...
As Long as There’s Life in Me
Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.
Schwarzer Samt
Der Fremde
Hated by her jealous and bloodthirsty stepmother, Snow White flees a murder attempt and seeks shelter in the woods with seven kindly dwarfs. Feeling...
Snow White
Josef Neumann has always been an outsider to society, and at the age of 30, he has already lived an adventurous life when he comes to the GDR. He was...
Zum Beispiel Josef
The Little Magician and the Big Bad Mark
A fantasy story about the young boy Lutz who is looking, with two friends, for a missing magical bird.
In Search of the Magical Bird
Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth...
Ikarus
The little island of Laenneken is a place where time seems to stands still. Traditional customs and age-old power relations are still in place and...
Die Hochzeit von Länneken
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and...
Lotte in Weimar
A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore...
The Thing in the Castle
Columbus 64
Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. But Ines’s narrow-minded parents intervene...
Next Year at Lake Balaton
Mostly fictional episodes in the life of famous german social-critical painter Heinrich Zille.
Zille und ick
The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders...
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from...
Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz
Christine inherits a sailboat from her father, whom she barely knew. Christine is a divorced single mother and her job at a research insitute leaves...
Die Alleinseglerin
This quirky episodic comedy weaves together three plotlines centered around the employees of a car garage, with some unexpected fairytale elements to...
Automärchen
Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was cancelled in 1965/66 due to the film's...
When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam
Due to his profession, Fred, an easy-going and charming long-haul truck-driver, sees a lot of the world. Along his routes he enjoys the company of a...
Wie füttert man einen Esel
Heinz is a well-stocked veterinarian in Klückow and his Jana in quite firm, although not always present hands. And now - as Aunt Alma is slowly...
Oh, diese Tante
17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.
Don’t Forget My Little Traudel
Asta, mein Engelchen
The crew of a small Saßnitz fisherman has problems with the "making a cultural socialist life". In order not to lose the competition prize...
Hiev up
This episodic comedy explores love in all its varieties.
Liebesfallen
The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a socialist German state, learns that he...
Time to Live
October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich...
Despite It All!
Junge Frau von 1914
In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kriwoj Rog, Russia, give their flag as a gift to the locals of...
The Banner of Krivoi Rog
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration...
The Borrowed Face
Ten years old Ernst and his father Alfons are traveling to the family event on their bikes.
My Father Alfons
Philipp is a small boy, who other guys pick on, because he's not as large as them. But when a musician gives him a magical flute, he can make objects...
Phillip the Small
Das Geheimnis meiner Mutter
Romantic comedy about a series of mix-ups. Brigitte Kaufmann wants to divorce her husband Jörg who is an engineer and chief executive of an...
Der Doppelgänger
The Cloud Sheep
Die Moral der Banditen
Das Graupenschloß
In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the...
Späte Ankunft
Steinreich
Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn,...
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Einer von uns
The Ruhr area in November of 1918. 13-year old Achim Wolters and his friends get their hands on some potatoes on the market. They want to surprise...
Engel im Fegefeuer
Small town policeman Holms suffers from a rather unusual problem: Because of the low crime rate, there is simply not enough to do for him. Deadly...
Hände hoch oder ich schieße
Little Daniel is a huge fan of cycling. He constantly drives around on his three-wheeler, knowing that he wants to become a famous racing cyclist...
Daniel und der Weltmeister
Five-year-old Peter and his older brother Hans drop the Christmas present for their parents in the middle of the road and it gets flattened by a car....
Der Weihnachtsmann heißt Willi
At the textile company, everyone appreciates the work of 18-year-old Susanne, but nobody really considers her a woman—including Lutz, with whom...
Für die Liebe noch zu mager
Europe, 1620: The well-known astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, who teaches as a professor in Linz, receives the message that his mother...
Johannes Kepler
Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with the new mayor. The consequences leave an entire...
Schwester Agnes
A film gala featuring a colorfully mixed program of musical numbers, along with the most popular artists of the GDR music, film and television...
DEFA Disko 77
Des Henkers Bruder
Der Bärenhäuter
Tiefe Furchen
An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new...
Karla
In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he...
Farewell
In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78
Blinde Augen klagen an
Die ehrbaren Fünf
Der Sandener Kindermordprozeß
Ein Mann, der sterben muß
Krestan Serbin, a 64-year-old Sorbian farm-worker, considers himself non-political. He owns a few acres, a few pigs and a cow, and intends to pass...
52 Weeks Make A Year
Die blonde Geisha
Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His research colleagues are less than thrilled about...
Weil ich dich liebe …
Der Mörder sitzt im Wembley-Stadion
Anton and his family moved into a high-rise building. In order for the new neighbors to accept his trumpet music, he has to perform a little...
Trumpeter Anton
Der Mann im Schrank
Fernes Land Pa-Isch
This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’...
Orpheus in the Underworld
Lautlose Schritte
Farsighted Falcon, chief of the Lakota, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and two warriors, sole survivors of their tribe. When...
White Wolves
Ironically, at the beginning of the summer holidays, Alwins strict father has grounded him to get him to improve his spelling. Alwin feels like a...
Alwin auf der Landstraße
Happy End
Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives...
Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben
Ein brauchbarer Mann
Wie ein Vogel im Schwarm
Film by Ulrich Thein.
Mensch, mein Papa...!
Long-haul driver Hannes (Manfred Krug) picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb (Jaecki Schwarz), who had a falling-out with his parents after dropping out...
Long Roads - Secret Love
Karl Erp is a middle-aged man with two children and a boring marriage. After starting an exciting affair with his intern, Miss Broder, he leaves his...
Glück im Hinterhaus
Film by Hans K.
Am Ende der Welt
This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno...
Ulzana
Film by Gottfried Kolditz.
Das Tal der sieben Monde
Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several difficult and woeful problems. The birth of...
Ripe Cherries
Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers....
Suse, liebe Suse
Oben geblieben ist noch keiner
Mord ohne Sühne
In 1903, Jan Anskath and his half-brother Martin are living in Rajgorod at the border between Russia and Prussia – Jan on the Russian, Martin...
Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod
Martin XIII.
Like Father, Like Son
Irrlicht und Feuer
The fisherman's son Christian, called Spinner, has a lively imagination. When he is sailing with his pirate sailboat, he feels like the sailor...
Pirate with Obstacles
The November Revolution of 1918 in Germany, famine and social upheaval evoke a response from the young Soviet government in Russia. To provide food...
Black Rusks
A young boy fantasizes his way to school into a battle between cowboys and Indians, where the bad guys want to steal some gold medals. Real events...
A Long Way to School
Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft
19-year old Benjamin, called Ben, works as a cashier on the fairground und is impressing girls with his youthful self-confidence. After an argument...
Einer vom Rummel
A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
The Land beyond the Rainbow
Film by Thiel and Brandt.
Brot und Rosen
Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.
Prague at Zero Hour
Die schwarze Galeere
Soviel Wind und keine Segel
Six episodes taking place the night the Berlin Wall came down.
Geschichten einer Nacht
Ein rettender Engel
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to...
The Sailor’s Song
Ein Mann und seine Frau