Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

Polizeiruf 110

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

Ways across the Country

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

Drei von der K

Despite It All!

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is...

The Sons of Great Bear

As American settlers encroach on the lands of the Lakota people, Tokei-ihto witnesses the murder of his father...

Frozen Flashes

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting se...

Kleiner Mann – was nun?

The love story of Emma and Johannes begins during the hard years of the Great Depression. Emma repeatedly tries...

Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to sta...

The Legend of Paul and Paula

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for...

Brennende Ruhr

The events during the Kapp-Putsch 1920 in a small German town in the Ruhr district. The main protagonist is Ern...

Wolf Among Wolves

The living conditions during the period of inflation in the early 1920s are depicted in a fascinating way. Behi...

Carbide and Sorrel

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

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...

Carla

An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague so...

Hannes Scharf

Miss Butterfly

After the death of their father, 18-year-old Helene Raupe (“coccoon”) and her younger sister Asta come under th...

Christine

Christine is a young farm worker in a small village in post-war Germany. Her attempts to improve her situation...

Monolog für einen Taxifahrer

A film about the experiences of a cab driver who drives a young, heavily pregnant woman who has collapsed in a...

Jede Stunde deines Lebens

Nebelnacht

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

Entlassen auf Bewährung

After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is ab...

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...

Pinocchio

The puppet boy Turli, who was only recently been carved from wood by the toymaker Kasimir, suddenly springs to...

Time to Live

The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a s...

The Rabbit Is Me

Maria, a young student sees her brother Dieter going to prison for sedition against the state. She starts an af...

Flucht ins Schweigen

During construction work in a small town in Thuringia, the burial of an unidentified man in an SS uniform with...

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...

Just Don't Think I'll Cry

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed...

Der erste Urlaubstag

In a village, there is reason to gossip and mock. As a kind of reward, the workaholic tractor driver Andreas is...

Divided Heaven

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

Mir nach, Canaillen

A wild story set in eighteenth-century Prussia. Alexander can do everything that a real devil of a fellow must...

The Baldheaded Gang

August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates misc...

Mohr und die Raben von London

London in 1856. Karl Marx is living in exile in the British capital. One day, "Mohr", as Marx is called by his...

Občan Brych

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increas...

Kronika žhavého léta

A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary...

The Russians Are Coming

It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans...