Movies

The GDR is delivering pre-assembled port crane systems to Morocco by water.

Enemy secret services from the West had used modern technology for the "cold war", i.e. the confrontation with the Eastern Bloc, and developed a...

The film tells the well-known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, in which the little girl Little Red Riding Hood is led astray by the wolf, devoured...

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...

70 days after the government decision to build the Schwarze Pumpe combine, the foundation stone is laid. Trick explains the project and its...

A film about German mercenary soldiers.

When Jacques Offenbach's melodies are heard, the delighted audience usually asks very little about the man who inspired the great composer with his...

Die Konzessionen des Mister Urquhart (The Concessions of Mr. Urquhart) (1961) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike, Annelie...

A tailor sends his sons away. They each learn a trade and receive a special gift from their teacher.

In the small town of Benderath, Jewish high school student Jakob is the victim of hostility because of his religion. He forms the student group...

On a school trip, Daniel discovers a cave that sparks his vivid imagination: he wonders if there are dragons that live in caves like this?

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This...

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems...

A quote by literary figure Johannes R. Becher, first Minister of Culture of the GDR, supplies the title of this film about the 1982 International...

On the eve of the German Peasants' War, the family of the young Christoph falls victim to an act of revenge by the knight Scharfenstein. The peasant...

An adaptation based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Documentary film

At a Bach concert, a letter is read aloud in which the legation council of the Federal Republic of Germany tries to poach the musicians of the...