Movies

Entertainment in the GDR is the subject of this film, a wide field with many critical but also successful aspects. Examples from various kinds of...

An adaptation based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

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...

Overview of raw and finished products of the chemical industries in the GDR.

Short film about the production of artificial leather

The film honors the achievements of the NVA in preparing and securing the World Festival. It documents the opening, the demonstrations of the GDR...

The GDR is disarming and NVA tanks and aircraft are being scrapped. Members of the army have their say.

Documentary film about the Berlin state elections in the Soviet zone in October 1946

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

East German short documentary by Lutz Schütze

Ingeborg Tölke recaps her filmic biography, explains its elaborate technical conditions and talks about future core themes. She was presumably...

The married couple Angelika and Horst Butter sum up successes and setbacks of their joint amateur filmmaking. They now produce elaborate puppet...

Accompanying Liselotte Schließer, who worked full time as a technical draughtswoman, in her private and professional daily life. She talks...

Instructional short about the cleaning procedures on German trains.

A fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

A short sci-fi youth project film.

Modern retelling of the fable.

An independent experimental short from the GDR.

Anti-pacifist propaganda short produced by the FDJ section in Berlin.