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Heretic or visionary? With the publication of his famous 95 theses, the monk Martin Luther clashes with the Vatican. The documentary brings Martin...

George is in his 40s, a family man, on the fast track in his job - until one day a stranger claims ownership of 2m² of his house, enters the...

The film explores the only known case in the history of post-WWII era of concentration camp survivors helping the SS Commandant of the Auschwitz and...

A woman from a big city moves to a small village near the former border zone between East and West Germany. What is she looking for? What will she...

A green lawn like an unused carpet, encircled by a neat forest edge, in the background the steaming cooling towers of a coal power station –...

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citizens on the verge of adulthood see themselves...

Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu.

With tailor-made costumes, sophisticated choreography and consummate perfection, the German Television Ballet made screen history. Since 1962, the 26...

Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania,...

The landowner Klapproth would love to have his nephew Alfred, whom he promises to support financially to set up a business, show him the inside of an...

Lothar König is an original. The long-term youth pastor from Jena doesn’t fit into any system. In the GDR he was under state surveillance,...

Less than two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Udo Lindenberg's first GDR tour starts in Suhl on January 6, 1990. The cheers in the...

Between love madness, scandals, intrigue and happiness - the stories of German princesses on the Russian tzar's throne were shaped by strokes of...

Depeche Mode have had a loyal fan base since the 80s. Even in the deepest GDR province, boys wanted to look like Dave and people danced in black...

Is tradition the highest honor or the greatest misfortune? The village of Pöhla is debating this. Despite the devastating health consequences,...

Years ago, the two Poles Juliusz (92) and Krzysztof (77) decided to drop out. Since then, the wilderness on the shore of the Polish Lake Solina - far...

Over the course of a fifty-year career, the British band The Cure has released fourteen highly successful studio albums; but it was their 1989 album...