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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...

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,...

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

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

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

A little man wants to order a warm coat from a fabric he has brought with him to a tailor's workshop in winter. He is laughed at and told that orders...

Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary...

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...

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

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

From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

Using contemporary artistic representations in words and pictures, the documentary intends to create an overall view of the historical significance...

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...

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

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

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

Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can...

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...

In this documentary, Joachim Hellwig uses partly unpublished footage to shed light on a dark chapter of German history and shows the entanglements...