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This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the...

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics,...

Documentary about a neck mill in Bulgaria

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and...

Documentary short.

The futuristically trendy moderator Chris Wallasch leads the viewer through this program exploring what love might look like in 2002. Passengers at...

A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).

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

Found footage documentary about the rise of the nazi party and the second world war.

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.

Stiff formal exercises of the young dancing pupils and hot beat rhythms in the discotheque.