Movies

Nine peasant woodcarvers from Poland, their works, their thoughts, and the unexpected elements in each personal view. They draw their themes from...

The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is...

Voigt, Kroske and Richter were among the first filmmakers who documented the events of the historic 9th of October 1989. Their “material”...

Observations of everyday life in Krakow.

A worker in his forties picks up a student on the highway in his car and is thus torn from his previous life. He learns to respect the attitudes and...

Two men sit on the top of a roof, playing the tuba. They continually call out absurd messages making fun of official solutions and of their own...

The FRG is planning an attack on the GDR with the "Deko II" maneuver. This thesis is used to legitimize the construction of the "Anti-Fascist...

A grandfather builds a giant kite with his grandson, but first time they try to fly it, they are pulled up into the sky! Grandma is worried that the...

Accompanying a GDR fashion team, journalist Thomas takes a plane to an haute couture festival in an exclusive Mediterranean seaside resort. A French...

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girlfriend Karin...

The first part of the “Maxhütte Cycle”, featuring six scenes from the control room of the old rolling mill at...

The well-known illustrator Werner Klemke uses his drawings to teach the youngest bookworms about the value of reading. Taking this as a starting...

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

Erich Kubak is an excavator operator at the lignite plant. A technical weakness in the excavator, which repeatedly leads to production downtime, is...

In Calau, a small town on the edge of the lignite mining region, an unusual vacation expedition begins for twenty children: They bike across the...

This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names -...

An intensive interview with the young protagonist Rainer about his non-conformist life is combined with scenes from his everyday life. The...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...