Movies

The women’s committees in the GDR factories promote the technical and ideological-political qualification of female staff members. However, the...

Thomas Heise's documentary portrays the meeting of officials and citizens in the district office of Berlin-Mitte in 1984. The movie uniquely displays...

Riding outside, the princess and the court juggler Honorio discover a fire in the marketplace. Honorio kills a tiger that has escaped from the...

The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a strong comradeship. Among the workers are, for...

Documentary film

At the age of 18, Johann Sebastian Bach was ordered to Arnstadt to test the functionality and quality of a new organ. At the same time, as a musician...

Kochberg Castle was once owned by the von Stein family and Goethe visited Charlotte von Stein there several times. On the occasion of the "1000 years...

The first puppet animation film in the GDR shows the fairy tale about the quarrels of an unequal pair of animals, which is well-known in both German...

TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his...

The animated film, created as a puppet and clay animation with a drawn and painted backdrop, shows a day in the life of a painter. He drives to the...

Ten-year-old Ole is full of mischief. He attempts to fly and is hospitalized with a broken leg. When he sees a Sherlock Holmes movie on TV, however,...

Chicken Gock and the two mice are doing a big clean-up. Unfortunately, only Gock takes the work seriously.

Documentary about the socialist politician and writer August Bebel

He is not interested in all the beautiful flowers around him and would give anything for only one star from the sky. And what about the man in the...

In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman,...

In interviews, several important GDR personalities and also GDR citizens comment on the events of October 1989.

It’s only after the separation from her husband that another man tells her how valuable she is: the Chladek family, she’s a teacher,...

An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.

When Jacques Offenbach's melodies are heard, the delighted audience usually asks very little about the man who inspired the great composer with his...