Hannes Fischer

Ernst Schneller

The movie begins by showing how Schneller takes up the profession of a teacher out of love for the children. Wh...

Meines Vaters Straßenbahn

Ralph grows up in pre-war Dresden as the eldest son of a principled and orderly streetcar conductor. With the r...

Artur Becker

Artur Becker, who, as a young communist during the Weimar Republic, faced his first major test during the Kapp...

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Screen adaptation of Eichendorff's famous novella. A penniless drifter roams the land with his violin and prefe...

The Tinder Box

A young soldier discovers three chests of copper, silver and gold and an old tinder-box in the hollow of an old...

Das Kleid

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

Lebende Ware

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

Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to...

Before lightning strikes

Love's Confusion

The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is...

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...

Der Mann und sein Name

The young Walter Retzlow, drafted into the guard team of a foreign labor factory in the last year of the war, r...

Ein Mann, der sterben muß

Unknown assailants threaten the life of British scientist Dr. Ronald Fergusson. Only by chance does the attempt...

The Farmer's Clever Daughter

A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king ou...

Zünd an, es kommt die Feuerwehr

A morality tale from the time of the Saxon Kingdom. The von Siebenthal volunteer fire department has nothing to...

The Hunt for the Boot

Germany 1932, constant fights between Communists and Nazis tear the country apart. When a Communist is found de...

Fog

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

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 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...

Einer muß die Leiche sein

A group of tourists from the GDR spend their holiday at the coast of Bulgaria. When making a trip to a small fi...

Goldene Zeiten - Feine Leute

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

White Wolves

Farsighted Falcon, chief of the Lakota, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and two warrior...

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...

Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth

Johann Paul Schroth is a 20-year-old barber's apprentice who breaks out of the barber-surgeon's trade. Schroth...

Duped Till Doomsday

East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengst...

Der kleine und der große Klaus

The clever but poor farmer Klaus infuriates the rich big Klaus with his mischief. But little Klaus always manag...

Millowitsch Theater - Adel verpflichtet zu nichts

Der Tod hat ein Gesicht

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

Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to...

Meines Vaters Straßenbahn

Ralph grows up in pre-war Dresden as the eldest son of a principled and orderly streetcar conductor. With the r...

Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall

Under political pressure, a West German radio station stages a radio play about a Russian invasion of West Germ...