Erwin Geschonneck

Polizeiruf 110

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

Goldene Henne

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of t...

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing...

Gewissen in Aufruhr

As a German soldier in the 6th Army, Colonel Joachim Ebershagen is trapped in the Stalingrad cauldron. His expe...

Heart of Stone

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class....

Farewell to Peace

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

Naked Among Wolves

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly be...

Jacob the Liar

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast...

The Banner of Kryvyi Rih

In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, giv...

Everyone Dies Alone

A German couple start a silent campaign against Hitler's dictatorial reign after the loss of their only son at...

Abschied vom Frieden

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

Sun Seekers

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.

Carbide and Sorrel

After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once wor...

Five Cartridges

It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an international brigade...

Plantagenstraße 19

Normal everyday life in an apartment building on Plantagenstraße in East Berlin is disrupted when a truck pulls...

Berlin Around the Corner

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiqu...

Herbstzeit

A retired head cashier, lonely after the death of his wife, lives in the hope of being able to move in with his...

Finale

The fate of a pianist who returns from the Second World War with a wound to his right hand.

Stories of That Night

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

The Light on the Gallows

Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to...

Bold Adventure

In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the s...

Benno Makes Stories

Benno (Torsten Rennert), a bright boy from Berlin, is not really a problem case, although his parents have enou...

Mensch, mein Papa...!

Pensioner Erich Zarling loves two things: his daughter Ulrike and his dog sports club, of which he is chairman....

Love '47

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to...

The Last Night

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in lov...

A Lord of Alexander Square

Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built m...

SAS 181 antwortet nicht

Kurt, an apprentice in a fish combine, is an ambitious loner. He wants to show what a good sailor he is at a re...

Bankett für Achilles

For thirty years, Karl Achilles has been working at the chemical collective in Bitterfeld. But now his last day...

Katzgraben

The Island of the Silver Herons

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there...

Anton the Magician

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventiona...

Der Mann von der Cap Arcona

1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of...

We Buy a Fire Truck

Little Matti and his friends are restoring the old abandoned fire truck .

The Axe of Wandsbek

Hamburg, Germany 1934: An executioner is needed. Teetjen makes the biggest mistake of his life. Because his but...

Castles and Cottages

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