Movies

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...

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

A quote by literary figure Johannes R. Becher, first Minister of Culture of the GDR, supplies the title of this film about the 1982 International...

Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck

1929: Marie Lehning, a farm worker from Warmsdorf on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the fisherman's son Mingo. Both complete an apprenticeship in...

They are just 17 years old when Gaby and Eva receive the offer to play in a feature film that ambitious Hamburg filmmakers want to make. Despite...

Documentary about the Potsdam landscape painter and art teacher Hubert Globisch.

'Traumlos?' sheds light on future plans of three teenagers and young adults in a Brandenburg village. Realized shortly before the fall of the Wall,...

Ernst is a student in Hamburg around 1900 and leads a life like many other young people. In his free time, he roams the colorful metropolis with his...

This puppet animation film is based on Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. A 1936 symphonic fairy tale for children, the piece tells the...

In the small town of Benderath, Jewish high school student Jakob is the victim of hostility because of his religion. He forms the student group...

Children's film with animation and live action elements about how the lock in the Spree River works.

Voigt, Kroske and Richter were among the first filmmakers who documented the events of the historic 9th of October 1989. Their “material”...

The East German Navy's newest submarine hunter is presented. Also, a historical excursus about older anti-submarine ships and the hunt for enemy...

The film shows images of the "Solidarity" vacation home in Oberhof.

A duke tries to use force to collect the taxes of his peasants for the second time. The peasants want to defend themselves against this.

An adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella "Hans and Heinz Kirch".

The Nörgel clan divides the labor and produce more hats than they need for themselves. As consequence, they look into an exchange of products at...