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A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

The first summarizing film about the path of the class and the common stations in life. But also about the different paths in the profession, in...

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her...

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

The film’s subtitle identifies it as a “study of the constructive discontent of a composer”. It is a portrait of the pugnacious...

The story of the Grünthal peasants' uprising against the commander who oppresses and exploits them.

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and...

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

Young women made up only five per cent of students at the technical college in Ilmenau. The film devotes itself of this particular situation by...

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

A documentary about German director Konrad Wolf (1925–1982).

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

The foundations and effects of the law to ensure full equality for women are presented with a wide range of examples.