Movies

This documentary about the Buchenwald concentration camp features interviews with survivors who describe their memories and experiences. The...

Propaganda movie produced by GDR television on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall.

Trini avenges the torture of his uncle by a landowner’s son. Trini and his fellow peons destroy the landowner’s home and overpower his...

A soldier returns from the war. As he has nowhere to stay, he moves to hell. There he is ordered by the devil to stoke the fire under the cauldrons...

A guide to vegetable self-sufficiency in postwar Germany.

The thirteen year old Janni is depressed, because she's still a little behind in her physical development. This leads to bullying remarks from her...

Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.

Ten-year-old Frantisek is traveling to Leipzig to visit his German friend Egon. On the train, he shares the compartment with three men. One of them,...

A short social reportage with a working-class aesthetic and Brechtian alienation effect, aimed at a politically educated German audience.

In the Werra valley near the border is one of the five soda factories of the GDR that once belonged to the powerful Solvay group. After the war, they...

The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems...

Kollwitzplatz, Prenzlauer Berg: Children are playing and climbing all over the monument to Käthe Kollwitz, frowning adults are watching them....

Documentary focuses on women farmers from the village of Worin. Even on International Women's Day, March 8, these women do not want to hand over...

Rostock - GDR county on the Baltic. This county covering the northern part of the GDR is the welcoming destination of many people: holidaymakers,...

A funny story about a friendship between the children of East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Documentary on Annette Paduck's literature circle “ Schreibende Schüler”.