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  • 1951
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    Corinna Schmidt

    Corinna Schmidt

    1 1951 HD

    Berlin in 1878: Corinna Schmidt, who was brought up in a petit-bourgeois, academic family, is romantically interested in Leopold Treibel, the son of...

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  • 1946
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    Somewhere in Berlin

    Somewhere in Berlin

    5.80 1946 HD

    After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for...

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  • 1986
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    Jan on the Barge

    Jan on the Barge

    7.00 1986 HD

    1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to...

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  • 1985
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    Atkins

    Atkins

    4.30 1985 HD

    A Western set in the US around the turn of the century. Atkins leaves the city to return to the valley where he formerly lived. There he meets Native...

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  • 1972
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    Der Mann, der nach der Oma kam

    Der Mann, der nach der Oma kam

    6.50 1972 HD

    Günter and Gudrun Piesold are very busy with their careers as a TV comedian and an actress, so Grandma takes care of household chores and...

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  • 1974
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    Starling and Lyre

    Starling and Lyre

    5.50 1974 HD

    Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with...

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  • 1977
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    Mama, I’m Alive

    Mama, I’m Alive

    3.90 1977 HD

    In a Russian POW camp, four Germans determined to end WWII agree to pose as Red Army soldiers. Are they patriots or traitors, heroes or opportunists?...

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  • 1988
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    The Frog Prince

    The Frog Prince

    5.00 1988 HD

    Henriette is a princess; she is playing with her ball, but drops it into a well. A talking frog replaces it with a golden ball, on condition that he...

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  • 1955
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    Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

    Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

    7.00 1955 HD

    This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn,...

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  • 1968
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    The Boss Will Be Here at Noon

    The Boss Will Be Here at Noon

    1 1968 HD

    A dead body is found in a burning car on the Berlin-Leipzig highway. The police investigate: Murder. Objects found in the car point to gold...

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  • 1980
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    Der Baulöwe

    Der Baulöwe

    7.10 1980 HD

    The successful entertainment artist Ralf Keul must develop his land on the Baltic Sea or else ultimately give it up. Inexperienced yet courageous, he...

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  • 1968
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    The Russians Are Coming

    The Russians Are Coming

    5.20 1968 HD

    It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During...

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  • 1992
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    The Tigress

    The Tigress

    4.14 1992 HD

    It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her...

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  • 1956
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    The Brave Little Tailor

    The Brave Little Tailor

    5.10 1956 HD

    When Prince Vain got his shirt fixed, he proclaims that he had slain two lizards in front of the tailor's house - "two in one strike". When the...

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  • 1987
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    School Ghost

    School Ghost

    7.20 1987 HD

    Carola is a mischievous girl who doesn't care much for school- except for sports and recess, of course. Without her good friend Willi to keep her on...

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  • 1981
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    Wäre die Erde nicht rund...

    Wäre die Erde nicht rund...

    1 1981 HD

    While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and have a child...

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  • 1972
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    The Stolen Battle

    The Stolen Battle

    7.20 1972 HD

    In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prague. He has been trying to take the city for...

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  • 1972
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    The Little Prince

    The Little Prince

    4.50 1972 HD

    Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.

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  • 1961
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    Italienisches Capriccio

    Italienisches Capriccio

    10.00 1961 HD

    Biography of the comic poet Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793).

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  • 1974
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    Kit & Co.

    Kit & Co.

    5.00 1974 HD

    The adventures of Kit Bellew and his friend Shorty during the gold fever at the end of the 19th century.

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