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

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

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

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

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

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

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

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin in 1950.

Short film about electric railroad lines

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men....

A life story from a bygone era. In a retirement home, the 90-year-old Hermann Reußner tells his story. He was born in 1891 in Dessau, back when...

Documentary short.

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...

Voigt, Kroske and Richter were among the first filmmakers who documented the events of the historic 9th of October 1989. Their “material”...

Summertime in Prerow at the Baltic Sea. A cheerful film with the spirit of the sixties.

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East...

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots...