Eberhard Esche

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria

Love, intrigue, favouritism and corruption at the Dresdner Hof.

Mama ist unmöglich

Trace of Stones

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventiona...

Drei von der K

Beethoven - Days in a Life

Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the w...

Denn ich sah eine neue Erde

Four-part miniseries about the theologian Thomas Müntzer, who became a revolutionary and opponent of Luther dur...

Novalis - Die blaue Blume

A romantic fairy tale about love.

The Farmer's Clever Daughter

A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king ou...

The Second Life of F.W.G. Platow

Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small...

Till Eulenspiegel

In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Alth...

Exploring the Brandenburg Marche

On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Pro...

Murder on Monday

Photo model Monika Stange is found murdered in her apartment in a major West German city. Detectives Bentheim a...

Stories of That Night

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the h...

KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the r...

Divided Heaven

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two y...

Fog

At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NA...

Ripe Cherries

Helmut Kamp, the construction brigade leader, a man no longer young, life immediately confronted several diffic...

Charlotte Link: Das Haus der Schwestern

In an effort to rekindle their romance, Barbara and Ralph rent a secluded farmhouse in Yorkshire for Christmas.

The Little Prince

Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown unt...

Living With Uwe

Uwe Polzin, a highly talented biologist publicly stands the defence of his doctorate and this crucial day promp...

Fleur Lafontaine

Berlin, 1948: Paralyzed and robbed of her memory, Fleur regains consciousness after a serious fall. The doctor...

Der Spiegel des großen Magus

The evil and powerful King Magus brutally subjugates the people of his kingdom. Anyone who does not want to sub...

Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz

The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “p...

Anlauf

In the spring of 1969, a young man from a small town arrives at the partner company in Berlin, where he falls i...

Der Trinker

Hans Fallada tells in his published after the war novel "The drinker" the story of the agricultural wholesaler...

Levin's Mill

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. O...

Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast

With an open mind and the meticulousness of a scientist, Professor Tarantoga meets his strange guest, who has m...

Die Räuber

Germany in the 18th century. Two brothers rebel against the narrow confines of the small state and feudal despo...

Carl von Ossietzky

The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938...

Abends im Kelch

For Eyes Only

The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the...

The Incorrigible Barbara

The former athlete Barbara follows her husband to the province and attempts to masters her new life, even after...

Somalia - Die große Anstrengung

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

Abituriententreffen

Reparaturbrigade Zementwerk

A documentary crew follows the December 1978 “big repair” at the Bernburg (Saale) cement works, normally shut o...