Movies

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

In 1987, after over ten years of work, Werner Tübke (1929-2004), one of East Germany’s most important painters, completed the monumental,...

How young people were manipulated to join the war during the Imperial Era.

Die Sieben vom Rhein (The Seven from the Rhine) (1954) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike. The 76-minute film...

Seventeen-year-old Martina has a paralyzing fear of heights, which prevents her from fulfilling her father’s wish that they perform a tightrope...

A pretty mouse, gray as a pebble, comes into money, builds herself a cabbage house and looks around for a man. As she likes to sing herself, she...

The animated film, created as a puppet and clay animation with a drawn and painted backdrop, shows a day in the life of a painter. He drives to the...

The German couple Anna and Robert Zodinger have fled from Germany from the Nazis and have found refuge in Switzerland. For Robert Zodinger, a former...

Empty boxes and packaging, a little paint, brushes and a lot of imagination - the result is a whole zoo with Balthazar the Lion. He only has one...

When Michael was released from the Jugendwerkhof at the age of 16, he said: "... There has to be controversy to make progress, to achieve something...

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...

Ev and Peter fall in love at first sight. Peter studies dentistry in Leipzig and is eager to work in the country. There is an unfilled dentist...

On a pasture in Bavaria, an ox frightens members of the American occupying forces. Farmer Alois, the owner of the animal, is sentenced to thirty days...

An old widower comes up with a plan to not spend Christmas alone.

This documentary about the Buchenwald concentration camp features interviews with survivors who describe their memories and experiences. The...

Two men sit on the top of a roof, playing the tuba. They continually call out absurd messages making fun of official solutions and of their own...

Based on the life experiences of photographer Horst Sturm, the story of Kollwitzplatz in Berlin is retold.

Vienna in March 1945: seven people - three women, three men and a child - are spilled in a basement after a bomb attack. First, the emergency...

The documentary deals with the subject of "big city noise" in a humorous and satirical, but also serious way, using the example of East Berlin,...

On the night before the trip to the winter holiday, a boy dreams of the adventures he will experience in the mountains. Of course, he wants to try...