East Germany

Sketches from a store cashier's everyday life.

Ribnitz-Damgarten, the jewel at the coast of the Baltic Sea, is located directly at the Saaler Bodden, between Stralsund and Rostock. The town and its surrounding area are made for ...

The factories pollute the air so much that every living creature in town must wear a gas mask if they want to survive.

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and produced in cooperation with East ...

North of Neuruppin lies the Ruppiner Schweiz, the smallest “Swiss” area on German soil. Fontane loved the seclusion and enigmatic appeal of this region’s landscape. As an idyllic ...

The GDR is disarming and NVA tanks and aircraft are being scrapped. Members of the army have their say.

Educational short film about the solar eclipse

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie ...

Adaptation of the classic fairytale.

This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is intermittently imprisoned and threatened ...

Animated East German short about a dissenting bird.

What became of Hitler’s last array, born in 1928, visited 40 years later?

Morbidly beautiful images show the unreasonable working conditions at a rusty factory.

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

Based on a short story by Bertolt Brecht.

This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to make black painted clay heads of Karl Marx in the spring of 1973. Engelmann briefly ...

Turbine Potsdam was one of the GDR's most successful women's soccer teams, thanks to the hard work and dedication of the players and the strict coaching of Bernd Schröder. This ...

In 1987, after over ten years of work, Werner Tübke (1929-2004), one of East Germany’s most important painters, completed the monumental, oil-on-canvas painting The Early Bourgeois ...

An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.

Christine inherits a sailboat from her father, whom she barely knew. Christine is a divorced single mother and her job at a research insitute leaves her with too much work and too ...

Alfons lives with his grandparents on a Silesian village farm at the end of WWII. He adores his grandmother, who runs everything after her husband dies. But everything changes after the ...