Walter Jupé

Kleiner Mann – was nun?

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

Fernsehpitaval

Trace of Stones

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventiona...

Hans Beimler, Kamerad

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...

Heroin

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

Like Father, Like Son

Grandpa Lörke is preparing for a contemplative, quiet Christmas Eve. But nothing comes of it, because his daugh...

Sein letzter Fall

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

The Rabbit Is Me

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

Thomas Müntzer

In 1523, young Thomas Müntzer arrives with his wife Ottilie in the Thuringian village Allstedt to assume the re...

Gefährliche Fracht

During the unloading of the freighter "Florida", West German dock workers discover napalm bombs instead of the...

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...

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...

Guten Tag, lieber Tag

Engineer Strebel′s apprentices think of nothing else but music and dancing, although they should really concent...

Ware für Katalonien

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and...

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...

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...

Bahrenburg Stories

A story about a group of children in German town of Bahrenburg who are trying to build themselves a swimming po...

Ach, du fröhliche

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

The Just People of Kummerow

In a remote Prussian village, the shepherd Krischan with his fantastic stories is the attraction point for the...

Die Millionen der Yvette

French milliner Yvette has a small fashion salon in Düsseldorf. The young gentlemen of society fall at her feet...

Das Loch in der Mauer

Melanie van der Straaten

Melanie van der Straaten has the courage to separate from her wealthy, unloved husband and settle down with a n...

Bonner Pitaval - Die Affäre Heyde-Sawade

After participating in more than 100,000 euthanasia crimes during the Nazi era, the former SS psychiatrist and...

Senta's Gone Missing

The magnificent cow Senta has escaped from an LPG. Matuschek, a single farmer, joins the search. However, the v...

The Dream of Captain Loy

An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Amon...

Das hölzerne Kälbchen

On a pasture in a small village stand the cows and calves of the herder Bürle. Since many years, there is also...

Arnold Zweig

A short biography of Arnold Zweig, through the lens of East Germany state media.

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