Erika Pelikowsky

Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 2...

Daniel Druskat

Large-scale, five-part film about the relationship between two men caught between friendship, rivalry and hatre...

Karl Marx. Early Years

As a student at the University of Berlin, Karl Marx joins the "Doctoral Club," a refuge for young free thinkers...

Ways across the Country

East German TV miniseries about the young maid Gertrud Habersaat, who marries, moves from Mecklenburg to Poland...

Farewell to Peace

Prague 1913: The family of newspaper publisher Alexander Reither, traditionally reunited for a New Year's dinne...

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...

On the Way to Lenin

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor...

The Flight

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave Eas...

Abschied vom Frieden

Prague 1913: The family of newspaper publisher Alexander Reither, traditionally reunited for a New Year’s dinne...

Nebelnacht

When a motorcyclist dies in an accident, lieutenant Kreutzer and his colleague Arnold receive the order to inve...

Lebende Ware

In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At th...

The Adventures of Werner Holt

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert beco...

Her Third

In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit...

Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti

This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Ros...

The Naked Man on the Sports Field

Kemmel, a sculptor with a troubled nature, wonders, as he approaches his fortieth birthday, whether he has crea...

Declaration of Love to G.T.

Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desire to have...

Pension Boulanka

A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain B...

Divided Heaven

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

Godfather Death

Once upon a time, there was a poor farmer who had thirteen children. Since the farmer was so poor, there was ne...

The Master Thief

A master thief returns home. There he is threatened with the gallows if he fails to solve the tasks set by the...

Die große Reise der Agathe Schweigert

Overnight, Ernst has to leave his mother Agathe and Nazi Germany for Paris because he took part in a protest. B...

Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel

Paul Pospischiel loses his job in the great colliery collapse in the Ruhr, retrains and builds a new life for h...

The Lost Angel

August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach (Fred Düren). Barlach liv...

Der kleine Kommandeur

Florian is the son an army general and very proud of him. When his father has to attend the annual 1st of May d...

Der Tod hat ein Gesicht

Three chemists unveil “Substance L,” a pesticide capable of eradicating all life without harming material asset...

The Dead Stay Young

A depiction of class conflicts in Germany between 1918 and 1945. The Spartacist Erwin is shot by officers in 19...

The Opportunists

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

Censored: Kuhle Wampe

A detailed reconstruction of the censorship case against the landmark Weimar-era communist film, Kuhle Wampe, o...

Der entführte Prinz