Günther Simon

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-...

Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti...

The Sailor's Song

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

Krupp und Krause

The Silent Star

A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A...

Sun Seekers

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

Der Reserveheld

The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy about the army....

Preludio 11

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary ne...

Der Fremde

After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only looking for a n...

Heroin

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

At a French Fireside

Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldiers are ord...

Das Kleid

Poor weavers Hans und Kumpan try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is app...

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...

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...

Don't Forget My Little Traudel

17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.

Geschwader Fledermaus

An American transport squadron led by former General Lee supports the French colonial army in Vietnam in return...

The Moorhound

Two boys are helping the border guards to find a mysterious moor hound used by spies to transfer messages acros...

Fog

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

Spring Takes Time

Was it an act of sabotage or willful negligence? The non-party engineer Heinz Solter is suddenly arrested and a...

Ripe Cherries

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

The Russian Miracle

A two-part East German documentary tracing Russia’s transformation from the Tsarist Empire to the Soviet Union,...

Ballade vom roten Mohn

Spain in the 1930s. The film tells of the fight of international troops against General Franco's army. It tells...

When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam

Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was canc...

Der kleine Kuno

What do grown-ups actually do at night? Little Kuno has been asking himself this question a lot lately. One day...

Hammer or Anvil

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fir...

Einer von uns

A wrestler finds his political interest and activism through sport. However, this is extremely dangerous during...

Black Velvet

Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.

Der Lotterieschwede

Bornholm island in 1880, where quarry worker Johan Jönsson lives a miserable life with his wife and children. H...

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...

Anna Susanna

Alfons Zitterbacke

Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full of various...

Irrlicht und Feuer

Jürgen Fohrmann works as a hauer underground. In the course of the coal crisis, his mine closes - he loses the...

Eine Handvoll Noten

Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plans: As a pas...

Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot

Co-pilot Horst Schubert is a braggart and a true Don Juan. Thus, he tells young Ilse that he is in fact an "air...

My Wife Wants to Sing

Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into he...

Brot und Rosen

At the VII Party Congress of the SED, a delegate tells a reporter his life story: 18-year-old returning soldier...