Movies

Ten-year-old Ole is full of mischief. He attempts to fly and is hospitalized with a broken leg. When he sees a Sherlock Holmes movie on TV, however,...

In long takes with few cuts, women talk about their lives. All the conversations are shot in interior rooms, attesting to trust and great candour....

A master thief returns home. There he is threatened with the gallows if he fails to solve the tasks set by the count. So he has to steal the count's...

Stiff formal exercises of the young dancing pupils and hot beat rhythms in the discotheque.

This puppet animation film is based on Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. A 1936 symphonic fairy tale for children, the piece tells the...

Otto, the master of the house, behaves in an exemplary manner. He washes, cooks, does housework, gives presents to his wife, in short, he does...

The film reports on the massive forest damage in the Ore Mountains on the Czech-German border and the desperate struggle of foresters and residents...

Rostock - GDR county on the Baltic. This county covering the northern part of the GDR is the welcoming destination of many people: holidaymakers,...

Die Novemberrevolution 1918 (The November Revolution 1918) (1956) is a short East German documentary directed by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike....

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

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...

Teacher Ellen is fed up with her lame partner and colleague Horst. He teaches with such complacency! Ellen is different, she wants to inspire her...

In 1806 Berlin, the salon of the beautiful Frau von Carayon and her daughter Victoire, who is suffering from illness, is a magnet for some of the...

A creative and skilful montage as well as dramatically spot-on sound and music effects are combined in a snappy plot to offer a mordant commentary on...

This short film is an animated interpretation of the Suite No. 4 by the music ensemble Bayon, which was founded in East Germany in 1971....

Chile 1985, the repression of the Chilean people by the dictatorship and the resistance, accompanied by the music of the exiled composer Angel Parra.

Sister Agnes helps in all situations and does not only make friends. She has just fallen out with the new mayor. The consequences leave an entire...

In the late summer of 1958, party secretary Ernst Wollni is sent from Berlin to the village of Schwarzwalde to help set up an agricultural...

Experimental film

Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers....