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An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance...

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to...

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...

The epilogue to the film "The Laughing Man" (1966), which alternates between objectivity and anger, exposes the involvement of the West German...

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

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 short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media.

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

Homelessness in New York. Interviews with those affected. An architect from San Francisco comes up with the idea of building the so-called "City...

Spring 1988: a cinematic chronicle of the small town of Zehdenick an der Havel in the Mark Brandenburg. Brickworks have determined the rhythm of life...

Portrait of Hans Globke, jurist at the ministry of interior during the Third Reich and co-author of an official commentary to the Nuremberg Laws of...

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East...

Leipzig is in a period of change. The uproar of Autumn ’89 is followed by a hectic electoral campaign in Spring ’90. Nightly...

Grand Central Station, New York - the town's landmark. The camera captures impressions within 24 hours.

Protests in Hasselbach in the Hunsrück Mountains against the deployment of 96 Cruise Missiles.