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A cinema-verité documentary of Ghana’s five years of independence under President Kwame Nkruma. Striking color images of Africans in...
The Black Star
A fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors. Finally she is forced by the king to marry a...
King Thrushbeard
Martin Luther
Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now...
Ursula
Die erste Reihe
Lord Hansi
Schulmeister Spitzbart
A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi...
Jugend ohne Gott
Turbine Potsdam was one of the GDR's most successful women's soccer teams, thanks to the hard work and dedication of the players and the strict...
Frauen am Ball
Clausewitz - Lebensbild eines preußischen Generals
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
He could have had women, he could have climbed the ladder of his accountancy career, and he could have stood on the podium next to the highest in the...
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
The evil and powerful King Magus brutally subjugates the people of his kingdom. Anyone who does not want to submit is turned into an animal and...
Der Spiegel des großen Magus
The 18-year-old Katharina Jens is a high diving champion and succeeds in everything she does. When she enters an international contest in place of...
The Girl on the Diving Board
A tale about the evil queen who gets swapped with a simple and nice woman.
The Swapped Queen
In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his...
The Turning Point
Before going to bed, Jana plays a lullaby on her violin for the little star. In the girl's imagination, the star dances happily and falls from the...
Jana and the Little Star
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
Gut gemeinter Zuruf oder Das Kleefest
Der Rest, der bleibt
A depiction of class conflicts in Germany between 1918 and 1945. The Spartacist Erwin is shot by officers in 1918, and his pregant working-class...
Die Toten bleiben jung
Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the...
Hospital of the Transfiguration
East German stop-motion animation version of the famous fairy tale, notable for its Beast appearing as an elephant.
The Beauty and the Beast
Das Myrtenfräulein
Die sieben Raben
Novelle
Das Feuer des Faust
Der Teufelstaler
Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.
The Little Prince
The nurses and friends Anna and Annette grow desperate over men and love. At the hospital, Anna has fallen in love with Markus, whom she lovingly...
Der Traum vom Elch
Doppelt oder nichts
Die Insel Gottes
Mein lieber Mann und ich
Anlauf
Erziehung vor Verdun
Little Sabine has spent her childhood in an orphanage after her parents died in a car accident. When one of the women in charge at the orphanage,...
Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven
East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a...
KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra
Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa
Kikeriki
Freischütz in Berlin
Although mocked by his collegaues, the dean of Salamanca sets off to find the legendary bird Turlipan.
The Search for the Turlipan Bird
Die Lügnerin
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The...
The Promise
Ralf Paeschke is a film student who has to make a documentary film about a group of women working in a lamp factory. There is brazen Susie,...
All My Girls
Der Magdalenenbaum
Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Archangelskoje near Moskow to open the new...
Wo andere schweigen
Der Meisterdieb
Junge Frau von 1914
Dr. Grunert, electronics specialist from the GDR, gets a visit from an old acquaintance from war times. Both worked back then on navy torpedoes. His...
Angebot aus Schenectady
Kasper Mai, an export merchant and comrade with a “clean” record, discovers he is the prince of Hohenlohe-Liebenstein. His royal...
Seine Hoheit – Genosse Prinz
Der Biberpelz
Diktatur des Gewissens
Märztage in Berlin
The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer...
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days....
Lot's Wife
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
Dr. Barbara Heim, a heart surgeon, and Gunter Heim, a well-known actor, have been married for seven years. They have a six-year-old daughter. Both...
The Seventh Year
In 1945, Ernst Machner returns home from the war in his mid-20s. Tuche would like him to weave for a living, but his comrades persuade him to become...
The Best Years
Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
A documentary about German director Konrad Wolf (1925–1982).
Die Zeit die bleibt
Six episodes taking place the night the Berlin Wall came down.
Geschichten einer Nacht
Animated short film based on the Andersen tale.
Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse
Kein Mann für Camp Detrick
Der Andere neben dir
Eight year old Paul and his mother just moved to a skyscraper. After an embarrassing encounter with Anna, Paul meets her in the elevator. Anna makes...
Ol' Witch
Hedda Gabler
Gevatter Tod
Er ging allein
Auf den Spuren von GutsMuths
Alchimisten
Irrlicht und Feuer