Fredy Barten

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman nam...

Snow White

Hated by her jealous and bloodthirsty stepmother, Snow White flees a murder attempt and seeks shelter in the wo...

Fernsehpitaval

Men and Beasts

The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured...

The Singing Ringing Tree

A brave prince must seek the fabled singing, ringing tree in order to win the heart of a beautiful princess.

Stronger Than the Night

The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, imprisoned in a...

Ein Polterabend

Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosp...

Wer seine Frau lieb hat

The Berlin Volkseigene Betrieb (VEB) Komet is planning a company outing. Willi Redlich, member of the party com...

The Brave Little Tailor

When Prince Vain got his shirt fixed, he proclaims that he had slain two lizards in front of the tailor's house...

Heroin

This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location s...

Terrible Woman

A doctor of social sciences - a specialist in failing marriages - becomes jealous. He imagines his skater wife...

Stronger Than Paragraphs

Renate Hubricht finds her uncle, the money broker Theodor Hubricht, murdered in his villa. That very night, the...

Der Prozeß wird vertagt

In 1955, Michael Vierkant, a Jew who had emigrated during the Nazi era, returns from abroad to the Federal Repu...

As Long as There’s Life in Me

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Li...

Chronicle of a Murder

In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer...

The Song of the Trumpeter

Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his...

Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes

Ella Conradi, a dedicated journalist from Germany, is in Jerusalem to report about the trial against the Nazi c...

The Case of Dr Wagner

Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If the experime...

Divided Heaven

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

The Flying Dutchman

In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks refuge in he...

Seine Hoheit – Genosse Prinz

Kasper Mai, an export merchant and comrade with a “clean” record, discovers he is the prince of Hohenlohe-Liebe...

Maiden, You Please Me

A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and th...

The Captain from Cologne

Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Ar...

Sein großer Sieg

GDR and West Berlin in the 1950s. Hans Nettermann, a designer at the "Komet" bicycle factory, is a favorite of...

Kapitäne bleiben an Bord

Kurt Kars, the young, enthusiastic but rather inexperienced captain of a fishing vessel, lets his ambition driv...

Die Meere rufen

The Trip to Bamsdorf

Toni and his sister Rita travel alone by train to visit their grandma in Bamsdorf, eight stations down the line...

Two Mothers

The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by...

Der Mord, der nie verjährt

In 1929 Berlin, the progressive editor-in-chief Bornstein is on trial for libel. An article in his magazine att...

Pole Poppenspäler

On his travels, Paul, a journeyman from northern Germany, runs into a childhood friend, Lisei, a puppeteer's da...

Papas neue Freundin

The young medical student Klaus Bach has married the love of his life, Irene, and lives with her and their eter...

For Eyes Only

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