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Documentary focuses on women farmers from the village of Worin. Even on International Women's Day, March 8, these women do not want to hand over...

In the relaxed holiday atmosphere at the Baltic Sea, the director questions 9th grade pupils about their first experiences with the other sex.

Berlin-Northeast. An area tries to meet new needs, to conform to human demands. The film registers the feelings of a girl from this area as she looks...

24 hours at the Berlin traffic accident standby service. The frequency of accidents on the streets of the capital of the German Democratic Republic...

East German short film directed by Andrea Ritterbusch

East German documentary about the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

The founding phase of the Bauhaus in Weimar and its move to Dessau until its closure in 1932. The designs, models and reconstructed parts of the...

Documentary about the socialist politician and writer August Bebel

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

In three parts, the documentary takes a look at the lives of three working mothers in East Berlin. Carola is a nude model and cleaner, Sabine is a...

Rolf Jarschel’s passion are lighters of every kind. He owns the largest collection in Europe with over 3,000 items. From Phoenician oil lamps...

The film proves that the apparently ideally and extremely purposefully coordinated relationships between flowers and the insects that pollinate them...

Johann Friedrich GutsMuths (1759-1839) was an educator and co-founder of gymnastics. He developed an entire system of gymnastic exercises for young...

The compilation film looks back on four decades of East German film production to mark the 40th anniversary of DEFA. Beginning with the founding...

The dreams of young Andrea. The camera accompanies the seven-year-old girl in 1976 when she was at school dressed up and singing as a flying...

Documentary on the moving of 108 families of the village Mücheln, because of lignite mining in the area.

In 1986, 60% of all machine tools in the GDR were produced by WMW "Fritz Heckert" in Karl-Marx-Stadt. This documentary introduces some of the Heckert...

“17 June 1990, East Berlin. The GDR will exist for another three months. No more time to commemorate all those who stood up in ’53,...