Movies

A tale about the evil queen who gets swapped with a simple and nice woman.

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in...

A statue, with outstretched arm pointing “forward,” is unveiled to thunderous applause. Then one day it points the other way. Once again,...

Sigmund Jähn, (East) Germany's first man in space, and the preparations for the space flight are portrayed.

Short film about astronauts in the GDR

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

Erika and Rüdiger Dörge, both doctors, had had a long happy marriage. One day an incident occurs in the clinic where they both work, which...

A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen. Now, after graduating from a...

East German short film

The film tells the well-known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, in which the little girl Little Red Riding Hood is led astray by the wolf, devoured...

How the human right to freedom, dignity and inviolability are represented in practice - from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Mira is a young, bigoted, rich and greedy auntie who makes the people around her dance to her tune. And if she ever suffers the minor ailments of old...

An old widower comes up with a plan to not spend Christmas alone.

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

In 1928 Berlin, 19-year-old stenotypist Erna Halbe lands a prized typing job at Orga Privat. Thrust into the soul-killing monotony of a sprawling...

Salvador Allende’s last radio speech is given in full; nothing is interposed. The translation of the speech appears in subtitles, individual...

Two young boys are trying to organize a wedding of the father of one of them and the mother of the second.

Compilation film, tracing the political career of Dr. Hans Globke, allegedly a former Nazi, now Secretary of State in West Germany.

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.