Movies

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 film poster advertises 100 years of cinema in 1995. When cracks open in the wall, typical characteristics of Charlie Chaplin spring out and combine...

A hard-hearted nobleman chases away all of his aged servants. Only one thresher manages to stay in service. However, he cannot do the required work...

A graphic fairy tale movie about the adventures of four friends - a donkey, a dog, a rooster and a cat - who deal with an evil master and robbers.

On the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, street surveys and interviews with citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany provide information...

After a long wait, a king and queen have a daughter. As there are not enough golden plates, only twelve wise women can be invited to the christening....

Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.

In long takes with few cuts, women talk about their lives. All the conversations are shot in interior rooms, attesting to trust and great candour....

Entertainment in the GDR is the subject of this film, a wide field with many critical but also successful aspects. Examples from various kinds of...

Venus after Giorgione is the the second part of the "Over Paintings" (Uebermalungen) trilogy by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher)....

The GDR is delivering pre-assembled port crane systems to Morocco by water.

Propaganda movie produced by GDR television on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall.

A young couple from the present day is transported by magic to a distant fairy-tale world. There they encounter clever objects such as the table that...

A close film adaptation of Johann Strauss' "Fledermaus". Notary Falke uses Prince Orlofsky's ball, at which the distinguished gentlemen of Viennese...

DEFA documentary in honor of the 750th birthday of the city of Berlin.

Factory wife Jenny Treibel plans to engage her youngest, softened and weak son Leopold to teacher's daughter Corinna Schmidt. She wants to cross the...