Günther Fischer Movies

A documentary about the 75th birhday of the UFA film studios directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.

In 1960, farmer Walter Wagemühl learns from the West that his life is coming to an end. In order to pass the farm into loyal hands, he sends his...

On the eve of the German Peasants' War, the family of the young Christoph falls victim to an act of revenge by the knight Scharfenstein. The peasant...

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...

She is called Dona Juanita: the attractive young architect Anita Nachtigall, who manages a department on a large construction site with great...

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film images, but also some of the timeless melodies that...

While everything is in ruins in Berlin in the spring of 1945, the British bombers are flying overhead and the Red Army is not far away, 15-year-old...

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...

A squatter is remanded in custody for trespassing. In a long conversation, her mother manages to irritate the investigating detective so much that...

After a wolf had killed a sheep in their village, 12-year old Roland and his friend Hugo keep track of the predator. Roland wants to build a trap to...

Two adolescents, Sauly and Mick, get to know each other while hitchhiking and stick together for the long haul. They both want to reach the ocean,...

A woman in her mid thirties drifts through Berlin on a Friday night then lazes around her apartment with her husband the next morning.

A stroll through East Berlin in 1977 - unique original recordings of the GDR capital by day and night, summer and winter, accompanied by music, offer...

North of Neuruppin lies the Ruppiner Schweiz, the smallest “Swiss” area on German soil. Fontane loved the seclusion and enigmatic appeal...

Shortly after the end of World War II, young carpenter Achim is sent to a remote farm to do some repair work. Three women from different generations...

The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with...

Orphaned Julius flees bombed Berlin and meets freed communist Kaiser. Together they rescue a starving circus horse and join a Soviet‐run...

A married couple looks for answers to their sexual problems. Leading GDR sexologist Dr. Siegfried Schnabl gives advice.

In 1986, 60% of all machine tools in the GDR were produced by WMW "Fritz Heckert" in Karl-Marx-Stadt. This documentary introduces some of the Heckert...