Movies
- 1983

A Pillar In The Stream
A Pillar In The Stream01983HD
The story of communist Walter Zauner who in 1952 was one of the first in the Federal Republic to be convicted of sabotage of a military installation.
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- 1954

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class5.11954HD
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...
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- 1980

Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78
Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 7801980HD
In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
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- 1960

Hatifa
Hatifa01960HD
Hatifa is tired of her difficult fate and escapes from the place of her enslavement, a quarry in the desert. There she wanders around in freedom, but...
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- 1974

Jacob the Liar
Jacob the Liar7.11974HD
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making...
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- 1975

Icarus
Icarus6.51975HD
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...
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- 1966

The Investigation
The Investigation01966HD
The Investigation (1965) is TV version of a play by German playwright Peter Weiss that depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963–1965.
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- 1990

Forbidden Love
Forbidden Love61990HD
18-year old Georg and 13-year old Barbara have been playing together as children. Play becomes love later, which leads to a catastrophe , as their...
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- 1956

The Donkey, The Table and The Stick
The Donkey, The Table and The Stick7.11956HD
A tailor sends his sons away. They each learn a trade and receive a special gift from their teacher.
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- 1976

Aschenbrödel
Aschenbrödel01976HD
Aschenbrödel (Cinderella), the fairy tale, is a fantastic mixture of the miraculous and the everyday, based on the well-known folk tale by the...
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- 1966

Die Tage der Commune
Die Tage der Commune01966HD
Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleeding workers of Paris who...
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- 1968

Do Not Mention the Cause of Death
Do Not Mention the Cause of Death5.21968HD
In an atmosphere of WWII, a village dyer wants to help his folks in their sorrow and distress by supplying them with the black paint, but there is...
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- 1956

Kawulke contra Meyer
Kawulke contra Meyer01956HD
A heated argument has broken out between two parties in a block of flats in Berlin. The families in question, the Kawulkes and the Meyers, clashed...
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- 1986

Jorinde und Joringel
Jorinde und Joringel71986HD
The girl Jorinde and the foundling Joringel grow up sheltered in a farmer's cottage behind the moor, but the dense forest around them harbors deep...
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- 1989

Coming Out
Coming Out6.61989HD
Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man....
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- 1972

The Little Prince
The Little Prince51972HD
Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.
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- 1982

Your Unknown Brother
Your Unknown Brother6.31982HD
A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has...
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- 1965

Spring Takes Time
Spring Takes Time5.61965HD
Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arrested and accused of approving a defective...
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- 1978

Sabine Wulff
Sabine Wulff5.41978HD
Sabine Wulff is almost 18 when she is released from the juvenile detention center. She doesn't want to return to her unsupportive parents or to her...
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- 1976

The Blue Light
The Blue Light6.8331976HD
Hans the farmer is drawn into war as a soldier. Returning from the front, having been defrauded of his pay by his own king, he makes his way home. On...
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