Movies

Documentary short to propagate the positive effects of labour protection laws.

The very first images in the film set unprecedented standards in East German animated film: a Buñuelean eye that fills the entire screen,...

Mecklenburg, 19th century. For generations, the Brand family of farmers has worked a piece of land as tenants of the baron, who owns almost all of...

A mother hedgehog lives in the forest with her seven sons. Two of them fall down a slope; one is eaten by an owl, the other is found after...

An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much...

Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again...

A young merchant's son spends his entire fortune to be able to throw lavish parties with his cronies. All he has left in the end is an old magic...

Two teenagers bought an audio cassette. They stroll casually through the park, where they can hear a blackbird singing. Back in their room, they sit...

Semi-automatic assembly line production and testing of the Trabant 601 at VEB Sachsenring - Automobilwerke Zwickau.

Martin Brandt (1903-1989), an unforgettable Jewish actor and former member of the Jewish Kulturbund Theater in Berlin, recites from Macbeth and...

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

Around 1,500 people from more than forty countries met in Dresden for the 1984 congress of UNIMA, the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Founded...

The village is still in full bloom, but the sun is already low in the sky. Chubby-cheeked Mr. Winter is creeping up on the village. Under his icy...

Two sisters enter the fairy tale realm of Frau Holle and must prove their diligence and helpfulness. The good and hardworking girl receives a golden...

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

Little Bear wants to surprise his mother for her birthday with a picture he has painted himself. To avoid being discovered, he sits on the chimney of...

Eberhard Kunstmann, a shipbuilder at the Neptune Wharf in Rostock, counsels collegues who are struggling with alchohol addiction.

Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.

At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of...