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  • 1949
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    Rotation

    Rotation

    6.70 1949 HD

    The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his...

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  • 1983
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    Island of Swans

    Island of Swans

    6.80 1983 HD

    Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where...

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  • 1977
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    The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes

    The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes

    6.20 1977 HD

    Television adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale.

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  • 1963
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    Sonntagsfahrer

    Sonntagsfahrer

    5.70 1963 HD

    On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to the West. The initiator is the philistine...

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  • 1987
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    Die erste Reihe

    Die erste Reihe

    1 1987 HD

    Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are...

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  • 1965
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    Engel im Fegefeuer

    Engel im Fegefeuer

    1 1965 HD

    The Ruhr area in November of 1918. 13-year old Achim Wolters and his friends get their hands on some potatoes on the market. They want to surprise...

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  • 1974
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    Hans Rockle and the Devil

    Hans Rockle and the Devil

    7.00 1974 HD

    Hans Röckle is a puppeteer, inventor, blacksmith and more. He is challenged by the Devil (in almost a dozen fancy costumes) who offers him even...

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  • 1979
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    Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell

    Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell

    1 1979 HD

    The "Astoria", an English luxury liner, collides with a freighter shortly before the end of its voyage and threatens to sink. Captain Mitchell,...

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  • 1948
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    Chemistry and Love

    Chemistry and Love

    5.60 1948 HD

    A chemist and his assistant make a groundbreaking discovery. They manage to make butter directly from pasture grass without having to deal with...

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  • 1988
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    Kai from the Box

    Kai from the Box

    6.00 1988 HD

    Kai, a young boy, living in 1923 Berlin tries to convince an American businessman that he can market his chewing gum better than anyone else in town.

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  • 1949
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    The Beaver Coat

    The Beaver Coat

    6.00 1949 HD

    Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...

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  • 1970
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    Tscheljuskin

    Tscheljuskin

    1 1970 HD

    In the 1930s, the Soviet ship "Chelyuskin" embarked on an expedition to the Northern Ocean. But soon there is an accident in the ice and the team can...

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  • 1981
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    Die Stunde der Töchter

    Die Stunde der Töchter

    1.00 1981 HD

    A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain...

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  • 1980
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    All My Girls

    All My Girls

    8.00 1980 HD

    Ralf Paeschke is a film student who has to make a documentary film about a group of women working in a lamp factory. There is brazen Susie,...

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  • 1971
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    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

    KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra

    9.50 1971 HD

    East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a...

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  • 1983
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    Spring Symphony

    Spring Symphony

    6.40 1983 HD

    "Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier...

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  • 1951
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    Friendship Triumphs

    Friendship Triumphs

    1 1951 HD

    Film about the third 'Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten für den Frieden' in East Berlin, 1951. West Germany is represented as a degenerate...

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  • 1962
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    Die Nacht an der Autobahn

    Die Nacht an der Autobahn

    1 1962 HD

    A young doctor has to spend a night in a lonely house near the transit highway. Unexpectedly, he witnesses East-West smuggling operations, which he...

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  • 1967
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    The Heathens of Kummerow

    The Heathens of Kummerow

    5.60 1967 HD

    Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to drive cowherd Krischan out of the village. Being...

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  • 1954
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    Alarm at the Circus

    Alarm at the Circus

    10.00 1954 HD

    Two boys from West Berlin, Klaus and Max, live in poverty. They dream of a career in boxing and save every penny in order to buy boxing gloves for...

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