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Under the sign of the swastika, it was, amongst other things, turned into a naval base, it got heavily destroyed in two waves of attack in April of...

Jewish and Christian music merge in this film about one of the oldest choirs in Germany, the choir in Magdeburg Cathedral, which has been performing...

Leipzig is in a period of change. The uproar of Autumn ’89 is followed by a hectic electoral campaign in Spring ’90. Nightly...

Documentary short about artist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938).

Summertime in Prerow at the Baltic Sea. A cheerful film with the spirit of the sixties.

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town...

Eduactional film about the sensual and erotic nature of skin.

Three couples are presented who live together under very different conditions and in different situations. They are between the ages of 19 and 23,...

For over a year, the film team accompanied an eighth grade class and interviewed the students about their first romantic relationships as well as...

Teenagers at risk who are cared for and trained in a "Jugendwerkhof", a borstal - a problem almost totally suppressed officially. The film enquires...

Documents the work of youth work action on construction sites in East Berlin.

Documentary about a youth work brigade working on the construction of a tower block in Berlin-Marzahn

The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim to power and its aesthetic effect. The basis for...

A portrait of Helga Hörz, professor of ethics and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Short documentary about mining in east germany.

Documentary about the socialist politician and writer August Bebel

This black-and-white documentary reports on a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in East Berlin from March 24 to 29,...

A GDR documentary from 1987 that shows the lives of commuters from the districts of Marzahn, Hohenschönhausen and Hellersdorf. Historically, it...