Movies

The Oppen family has lived in Berlin, Griesener Straße, for generations. The first names of the family members are also repeated, so the...

A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their...

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

Gunnar, a bigmouth, hitchhikes from Berlin to Rostock with his brother's duffel bag. Right at the start of his trip, he meets well-mannered Teresa,...

A feuilletonistic conversation with the movie audience about the question: How do you feel about going to the movies? In general - and especially in...

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the...

A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys...

Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by...

Otto is turning 65 and a big celebration with relatives and friends is coming up. What does life bring? A comfortable retirement, looking after his...

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has...

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film images, but also some of the timeless melodies that...

A nasty witch has stolen the Princess’ beautiful face. When the three little bunnies try to help the Princess, they also get bewitched and...

"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropolis of East Berlin. As an emphatically lively,...

Documentary about Albrecht Dürer to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth. The film presents a panorama of the German Renaissance, in which...

Documentary film about the agricultural and industrial district in Thuringia. The focus is on the district town of Erfurt, with Gotha, Eisenach and...

A part of Earth's population are greedy and power-obsessed. They eat up and destroy everything. All of a sudden the planet Earth decides not to carry...

Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of...

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

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

The documentary reports on the most important stages of Thomas Müntzer's life, from his birthplace in Stolberg to his place of death in the...