Peter Gotthardt Movies

Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth...

Ernst Triebel, a young doctor from the GDR, meets his childhood sweetheart, whom he thought was dead, on the last day of his stay in Santos. During...

Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprised and ends up back in prison, where he is trained...

Puberty drama about the first love of a 15 year old girl from Berlin.

Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get married and have a child. When Sonya wants to go...

The Oppen family has lived in Berlin, Griesener Straße, for generations. The first names of the family members are also repeated, so the...

Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to...

A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their...

In an enchanted forest, the princely brothers Michael and Andreas get lost and are transformed, by a mountain spirit who jealously guards his...

Two best teenage friends spend the summer holidays together in a village. Then a good looking teenage boy appears.

Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to...

Gunnar, a bigmouth, hitchhikes from Berlin to Rostock with his brother's duffel bag. Right at the start of his trip, he meets well-mannered Teresa,...

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...

Florian is the son an army general and very proud of him. When his father has to attend the annual 1st of May demonstration, Florian grabs his teddy...

The compilation film looks back on four decades of East German film production to mark the 40th anniversary of DEFA. Beginning with the founding...

Documentary film about the agricultural and industrial district in Thuringia. The focus is on the district town of Erfurt, with Gotha, Eisenach and...

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...

Documentary about Albrecht Dürer to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth. The film presents a panorama of the German Renaissance, in which...

A feuilletonistic conversation with the movie audience about the question: How do you feel about going to the movies? In general - and especially in...

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has...