Movies

East German short documentary

After participating in more than 100,000 euthanasia crimes during the Nazi era, the former SS psychiatrist and physician Dr. Werner Heyde leads an...

Hatifa is tired of her difficult fate and escapes from the place of her enslavement, a quarry in the desert. There she wanders around in freedom, but...

Educational short film about the solar eclipse

The close ties and cooperation between the border troops of the GDR and the people of Thuringia are shown

Two neighbours argue about which one of them should get rid of a pile of rubbish.

Jakob is a poor farmer′s boy. Because of his timidity that even makes him run away from mice, he is often ridiculed by other people. Even the...

Maria, a young student sees her brother Dieter going to prison for sedition against the state. She starts an affair with Paul, a judge who turns out...

A culture festival is held in the village. Everyone is invited to take part, which is why the devil is also signing up to take part....

Everything started with a forbidden apple. The independent and intellectual man is responsible for continuous progress. But when profit-greedy people...

The protagonists life is repetitive. Every day she gets orders from the broken telephone. Every day she checks in with one of 52 cards and every day...

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich...

The East German scientist Professor Gerlach has made a significant discovery with his research into how a new, even stronger pesticide can be...

Married couple Peter and Felicitas Kallweit are facing an extraordinary marital test: at the same time, the purchase of a new, more prestigious car...

A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973. Blending reportage with...

During a routine visit to an acquaintance, an old, single Sorbian woman reflects on her life.

This historically relevant documentation about the Lusatian original Gerhard "Gundi" Gundermann, who was received ambivalently at his time, is a...

During a training flight, the experienced MiG fighter pilot Major Klaus Kornhod almost crashes. An investigation into the incident reveals that...

This black-and-white documentary reports on a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in East Berlin from March 24 to 29,...

Short doc about the "Miss Berlin" beauty contest in 1987.