Ekkehard Schall

Despite It All!

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is...

The Sailor's Song

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, Germ...

Wolf Among Wolves

The living conditions during the period of inflation in the early 1920s are depicted in a fascinating way. Behi...

Mother Courage and Her Children

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and...

Sein letzter Fall

Private detective Fritsch from Munich had received a lucrative assignment: he was to obtain proof of inheritanc...

In the Dust of the Stars

A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly welcomed by an...

Im Spannungsfeld

Electronic data processing is an absolute must in the Information Age. Karl Hoppe, the director of a large plan...

Goldene Zeiten - Feine Leute

Historical television comedy around Friedrich Alfred Krupp, whose connection to the imperial court and the infl...

The Punch Bowl

It is the 65th birthday of Wilhelm Lehmann, foreman of a chemical company. All members of the large family are...

The Shadow

Katzgraben

Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui

Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 and his rule in the years that followed are transferred to the North American...

Die Bestie

Moscow in the 1920s. A film about the pogroms in southern Russia is being made in a studio. The name of the not...

Castles and Cottages

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, af...

Die Geschichte vom armen Hassan

The land in poor Hassan's Central Asian homeland is stony and lacks water. Every day, he gazes longingly at the...

Die Tage der Commune

Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleed...

Der Auftrag

Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell

The "Astoria", an English luxury liner, collides with a freighter shortly before the end of its voyage and thre...

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

Dusk: 1950s East Berlin Bohemia

A documentary and film essay about the artist scene in East Berlin during the 1950s.

Das Leben des Galileo Galilei

Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser...

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a c...

Judith

Der Mantel des Ketzers

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

Der kaukasische Kreidekreis

The Opportunists

The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.

Das Stacheltier - Wildweststory

Reporters tell lies about East Germany.

Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti

The play tells the story of the chronic drunkard and landowner Puntila. When he is drunk, he is virtually free...

Das Leben des Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei seeks evidence to support the Copernican model of the universe, but the new theory contradicts...

Unbändiges Spanien

Documentary film about the Spanish Civil War.

Fetzers Flucht

A man escapes and kills a guardian.

The Dream of Captain Loy

An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Amon...

Freischütz in Berlin

Between 1817 and 1821, Berlin's court theater director Count Brühl has been fighting desperately for years for...