Peter Gotthardt Movies

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

Portrait of Interflug airline captain Günter Schneider.

They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration. They visit Weimar, the...

A portrait of Helga Hörz, professor of ethics and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth...

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...

15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of himself as an adult. He can hold a lot of rhubarb...

It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During...

The compilation film looks back on four decades of East German film production to mark the 40th anniversary of DEFA. Beginning with the founding...

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...

An insight into the culturally and historically significant region of Hadramaut.

Two best teenage friends spend the summer holidays together in a village. Then a good looking teenage boy appears.

Anton and his family moved into a high-rise building. In order for the new neighbors to accept his trumpet music, he has to perform a little...

Martina and Jürgen are lovers in the GDR. She is studying economics in Leipzig, he is preparing for his master's examination as a violin maker...

1929: Marie Lehning, a farm worker from Warmsdorf on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the fisherman's son Mingo. Both complete an apprenticeship in...

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...

Ernst Triebel, a young doctor from the GDR, meets his childhood sweetheart, whom he thought was dead, on the last day of his stay in Santos. During...

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where...

A documentary about the hooligans and the rivalry of two football clubs in Leipzig.

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...