Movies

Documentary about weaving and braiding

Propaganda movie produced by GDR television on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall.

A documentary about the planning and construction of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin.

The everyday work and life perspectives of a family of farmers from Brandenburg.

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...

Two men sit on an island watching the sunset. When a storm gathers, they decide to build a boat. While one man is mindful of the coming danger and...

Eberhard Kunstmann, a shipbuilder at the Neptune Wharf in Rostock, counsels collegues who are struggling with alchohol addiction.

Potter's Bull is the first part of the "Over-Paintings" Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Paulus...

Thomas Heise documents the everyday life of the "People's Police Force" in Berlin Mitte.

East German short film

Documentary about the socialist politician and writer August Bebel

Angela Davis visited the GDR in late summer 1972. For months, people all over the world had fought for her release. In Berlin, Leipzig, and...

Sculptor Makolies is filmed working on a sculpture in the middle of a quarry in Swiss Saxony. The quarry workers go about their work around him. Both...

Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the surroundings of the textile factory. Older gentlemen in a pub reveal that two factories produced...

A report on the oldest citizen of the GDR at the time, Emma Wagner from Gotha.

Follows the migration voyages of eels.

The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim to power and its aesthetic effect. The basis for...

This documentary deals with the coup d'état of general Pinochet in Chile 1975 and its immediate aftermath: the harsh repression of left-wing...

Holidays in colony (in Thuringia and on the Baltic) of the children of workers of a chemical industry in the DDR.

A film on the subject of peace. The authors' discussion partners, who contribute their own reflections and assessments to the film, are the...