Movies

Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up...

The electrician Peter Drews is a brigadier at a Baltic Sea dockyard. His men are among the most reliable and diligent workers at the dockyard. Their...

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having...

This children's adventure movie is a charming tale of a group of youngsters in Prague who hear that Soviet sailors abandoned their failing ship in...

This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’...

Sportivnyy prazdnik molodyozhi (Youth Sports Festival) (1951) is an East German sports documentary co-directed by Andrew Thorndike and Dmitri...

Various people from the GDR describe their lives and their work for the socialist society. Because everyone fulfills an important task in the society.

Olli, the main character in the movie, got a very bad grade and is terribly annoyed. She runs away from home and, together with a dog and a horse,...

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in...

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during...

Hoffi is starting fresh after his release from prison. He travels with his brother to different construction sites in search of Urban, an...

The film tells the tragic fate of railroad guard Thiel at the end of the 19th century. Thiel, who spends his days in the dull, monotonous fulfillment...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

Benno (Torsten Rennert), a bright boy from Berlin, is not really a problem case, although his parents have enough trouble with him. But that's not...

The East German scientist Professor Gerlach has made a significant discovery with his research into how a new, even stronger pesticide can be...

After the workers’ revolt on June 17th, 1953 this film disappeared in the archives until 1997.

To gain lands from the prince of Saxony, a group of orphans seeks Mozart, in order to obtain the very rare score of one of his compositions.