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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
Carnations in Aspic
Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress,...
Unterm Birnbaum
Dass ihnen der arme Mann Feind wird
Denn ich sah eine neue Erde
Optimistische Tragödie
During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every...
Fortress on the Rhine
Das Stacheltier - Ein Pferd müßte man haben
A short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media.
Arnold Zweig
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
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
Der Weg ins Nichts
After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is able to complete a printing...
Entlassen auf Bewährung
Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat...
Die Unbesiegbaren
Kein Hüsung
A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must be able to do: ride, shoot, love and...
Mir nach, Canaillen
It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During...
The Russians Are Coming
Ten-year-old Frantisek is traveling to Leipzig to visit his German friend Egon. On the train, he shares the compartment with three men. One of them,...
Abenteuer mit Blasius
After meeting the woman on the train Erwin Retzmann kills her in the forest.
The Zernik Murder Case
Katzgraben
Junges Gemüse
A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.
Sun Seekers
Die Liebe und die Königin
Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.
Husaren in Berlin
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in...
Frozen Flashes
At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When...
Ware für Katalonien
Eine Stunde Aufenthalt
How young people were manipulated to join the war during the Imperial Era.
Das Geschenk – eine beinliche Geschichte
Aus meiner Kindheit
Film by Wolfgang Luderer.
Der Mord, der nie verjährt
Junge Frau von 1914
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!
The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).
Carl von Ossietzky
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than...
Dagny
Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and...
The Devil's Elixirs
The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the...
Looping
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
During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered...
Mother Courage and Her Children
Italienisches Capriccio
Seilergasse 8
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
Geschwader Fledermaus
Ohne Paß in fremden Betten
Einer von uns
Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen.
Die heute über 40 sind
Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.
Unbändiges Spanien
Der Fackelträger
A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local...
Once is Never
Abschied vom Frieden
Rotfuchs
East German television film.
Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the...
The Adventures of Werner Holt
Flucht aus der Hölle
The widowed registrar Robert Zimmermann reconciles divorcing couples and finds happiness in love once again.
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from...
On the Way to Lenin
This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic,...
People with Wings
Böttcher made his graduation film about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. Already here a striking...
Necessary Years of Learning
Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall