Herwart Grosse

The Berliner

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-mar...

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...

Krupp und Krause

Miss Butterfly

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

Beethoven - Days in a Life

Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the w...

Action J

Compilation film, tracing the political career of Dr. Hans Globke, allegedly a former Nazi, now Secretary of St...

Pilots in Pajamas

Produced by DEFA and broadcast in four parts in 1968, this documentary series consists of extended interviews w...

Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück

This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Sa...

Carla

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

Sunday Drivers

On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to the West. Th...

The Sorrows of Young Werther

The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that sh...

Before lightning strikes

The Stolen Battle

In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prague. He has...

Pinocchio

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

Sein letzter Fall

Private detective Fritsch from Munich had received a lucrative assignment: he was to obtain proof of inheritanc...

Council of the Gods

Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration be...

Declaration of Love to G.T.

Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desire to have...

Alchimisten

Two-part TV movie about the inadequate production methods of a chemical plant, which come to light due to an ac...

Pension Boulanka

A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain B...

The Killer Is Sitting in Wembley Stadium

Just as a large payroll transport operation for a major company is being carried out by several employees of Lo...

Seine Hoheit – Genosse Prinz

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

Am Ende der Welt

In May 1945, returning soldier Michael Duda finds his hometown Weißenthal unoccupied. He meets escaped camp pri...

Professor Mamlock

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent...

Das Stacheltier – Eine Liebesgeschichte

The writer Franz Schmidt reads to two editors from his new romance novel. The two criticize the lack of a probl...

Husaren in Berlin

Comedy about the "Husarenstreich", the 1757 Berlin raid during the Seven Years' War.

Ach, du fröhliche

It was supposed to be a cozy Christmas evening with the family. Labor Director Walter Lörke was particularly lo...

Lachtauben weinen nicht

The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a strong comrade...

Andreas Schlüter

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.

Mir nach, Canaillen

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

Freispruch mangels Beweises

The democratic Munich journalist and editor-in-chief of the "Südkurier" newspaper, Alexander Steinhorst, has re...

Fleur Lafontaine

Berlin, 1948: Paralyzed and robbed of her memory, Fleur regains consciousness after a serious fall. The doctor...

The Gleiwitz Case

To justify their invasion of Poland at the start of WWII, Nazi high command hatches a secret plan: six Polish m...

Der Nachfolger

The Federal Republic of Germany. Journalist Rohmann, seriously injured in a car accident, is dying in hospital....

Street Acquaintances

The film centres around the young woman Erika, desperately seeking for love and escape from the depression of t...

Reportáž psaná na oprátce

Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters.

Levin's Mill

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. O...