Movies

In 1980, Wolfgang E. Struck, artistic director of the Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast, wistfully considers the imminent demolition of his house due to...

It’s only after the separation from her husband that another man tells her how valuable she is: the Chladek family, she’s a teacher,...

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

At the age of 18, Johann Sebastian Bach was ordered to Arnstadt to test the functionality and quality of a new organ. At the same time, as a musician...

A very little man attacks two huge feet and fights with all his power against them until his downfall. While dying, he is still convinced that he is...

Rostock - GDR county on the Baltic. This county covering the northern part of the GDR is the welcoming destination of many people: holidaymakers,...

Instructional short about the cleaning procedures on German trains.

A bird saves a little tree from withering.

This portrait of East German sculptor and graphic artist Fritz Cremer (1906-1993) shows the artist at work in his studio and some of his art works,...

In 1987, after over ten years of work, Werner Tübke (1929-2004), one of East Germany’s most important painters, completed the monumental,...

A fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

This historically relevant documentation about the Lusatian original Gerhard "Gundi" Gundermann, who was received ambivalently at his time, is a...

Documentary film footage of ground personnel starting the propeller of an American B-17 bomber is repeated in a tightly edited, rhythmic structure....

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remarks on the Oberhausen 66 Film Festival,"...