East Germany Movies

  • 2015
    Verliebt, verlobt, verloren

    Verliebt, verlobt, verloren

    Verliebt, verlobt, verloren

    7.42015HD

    In 1952, while the Korean War was still raging, the rulers of North Korea sent hand-picked students to other socialist countries to be trained there...

    Verliebt, verlobt, verloren
  • 2013
    Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

    Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

    Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

    102013HD

    Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time,...

    Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR
  • 2022
    Auf der anderen Seite die Freiheit

    Auf der anderen Seite die Freiheit

    Auf der anderen Seite die Freiheit

    02022HD

    Auf der anderen Seite die Freiheit
  • 1962
    Das verhexte Fischerdorf

    Das verhexte Fischerdorf

    Das verhexte Fischerdorf

    51962HD

    Mauritius Halbermann, nicknamed "Mauts", works as an advertising manager for Gravo-Druck, a state-owned print company. Mauts, a man obsessed with his...

    Das verhexte Fischerdorf
  • 2022
    Das ist nicht Amerika.

    Das ist nicht Amerika.

    Das ist nicht Amerika.

    02022HD

    East-Germany, 1990. The first summer after Germany's reunification and Olli is eager to explore this new freedom. But for someone who has never left...

    Das ist nicht Amerika.
  • 1968
    Farewell

    Farewell

    Farewell

    5.81968HD

    In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young son of a Munich bürger, makes a decision: he...

    Farewell
  • 1980
    Der Direktor

    Der Direktor

    Der Direktor

    51980HD

    The school authorities want to read success stories in director Joachim Faber's reports. But they cannot simply be produced on an assembly line....

    Der Direktor
  • 1991
    Something to Do with the Wall

    Something to Do with the Wall

    Something to Do with the Wall

    71991HD

    In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing...

    Something to Do with the Wall
  • 2017
    Sugar Sand

    Sugar Sand

    Sugar Sand

    5.82017HD

    End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from...

    Sugar Sand
  • 2004
    I Love You All

    I Love You All

    I Love You All

    82004HD

    A film on the surveillance and the control in East Germany also speaks about it - representing extreme and almost unbelievable image of a society...

    I Love You All
  • 2018
    Karl Marx und seine Erben

    Karl Marx und seine Erben

    Karl Marx und seine Erben

    72018HD

    Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's theories. In Western Europe, the student movement...

    Karl Marx und seine Erben
  • 1977
    Die Chemiearbeiterstadt

    Die Chemiearbeiterstadt

    Die Chemiearbeiterstadt

    01977HD

    Documentary about the life in the then newly completed city Halle Neustadt in the former DDR in East Germany.

    Die Chemiearbeiterstadt
  • 2024
    The Last Summer of the GDR: Freedom and Anarchy

    The Last Summer of the GDR: Freedom and Anarchy

    The Last Summer of the GDR: Freedom and Anarchy

    02024HD

    After the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of East Germany had to get used to a new way of consuming, working, and living. New-found freedoms were a...

    The Last Summer of the GDR: Freedom and Anarchy
  • 1958
    My Wife Wants to Sing

    My Wife Wants to Sing

    My Wife Wants to Sing

    01958HD

    Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into her head that she would like a career as...

    My Wife Wants to Sing
  • 2014
    Dragan Wende - West Berlin

    Dragan Wende - West Berlin

    Dragan Wende - West Berlin

    3.5712014HD

    Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His nephew comes to live with him as Dragan remembers...

    Dragan Wende - West Berlin
  • 1957
    Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...

    Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...

    Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...

    6.31957HD

    The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in...

    Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...
  • 2025
    The Spies Among Us

    The Spies Among Us

    The Spies Among Us

    02025HD

    Thirty years after the Cold War ends, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police searches for the truth after learning his brother...

    The Spies Among Us
  • 1982
    Busch singt – Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

    Busch singt – Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

    Busch singt – Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

    01982HD

    "Busch singt" consists of 6 films "About the first part of our century" and does not present Ernst Busch only as a singer but is a film with and...

    Busch singt – Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
  • 1980
    Solo für Martina

    Solo für Martina

    Solo für Martina

    41980HD

    Martina and Jürgen are lovers in the GDR. She is studying economics in Leipzig, he is preparing for his master's examination as a violin maker...

    Solo für Martina
  • 2016
    Als wir die Zukunft waren

    Als wir die Zukunft waren

    Als wir die Zukunft waren

    62016HD

    Seven directors remember their childhood and youth; to the 50s and 60s in the GDR. They appear to be curious, vulnerable children and teenagers who...

    Als wir die Zukunft waren