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A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

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

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

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

Short film about electric railroad lines

The age group in a group portrait of the fifth grade. They make suggestions for filming at school, in their free time and at home. Growing challenges...

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can...

Turbine Potsdam was one of the GDR's most successful women's soccer teams, thanks to the hard work and dedication of the players and the strict...

Documentary short about the Leipzig Tradefair in 1946.

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

The story of communist Walter Zauner who in 1952 was one of the first in the Federal Republic to be convicted of sabotage of a military installation.

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the...

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...

A sequence of nine individual biographical sketches with a prologue and epilogue on Golzow and the long-term observation. Deepening of the preceding...