Movies

Kunz, the poor day laborer who is richly blessed with children, discovers the secret of the cave in the Simeliberg while collecting wood. Robbers...

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

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...

Short film about the career opportunities at the highest training institution of the NVA, the Friedrich Engels Military Academy

In each of the valleys stretching to the sides of the river, a goat lives. Both animals consider themselves unsurpassable. One day the goats, finely...

A chronicle of the events from October 9, 1989 to October 3, 1990, staged as a neo-dadaistic farce, an overwhelmingly rich collection of interviews...

Zeitspiele is a playful satire about optimal time management in a company with countless side blows to the socialist planned economy.

In the crisis-ridden Germany of the 1920s, the desperate Frieda Hausmann pretends to be her deceased husband Wilhelm so that she can support her...

Documentary about a district with social problems and an unconventional teacher, who tries to teach more than just knowledge.

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

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

Two men and two women in a hotel.

Young birds are kept in line, but one of them insists on facing another direction. Being grassed by his comrades, he is visited by their master, who...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This...

The story of the Grünthal peasants' uprising against the commander who oppresses and exploits them.

Teenagers at risk who are cared for and trained in a "Jugendwerkhof", a borstal - a problem almost totally suppressed officially. The film enquires...