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A biographical documentary about the Bulgarian born film director Slatan Dudow (1903–1963).

A film about five street children; children who have had to grow up too soon. The footage was shot at Christmas 1992, in Berlin. Claudia, 13, wants...

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remarks on the Oberhausen 66 Film Festival,"...

The enjoyment of life between the construction site and the caravans is not as cultured, as the officially ordered leisure time was supposed to be.

Director Bernd Sahling documents almost four years in the life of a young man who experienced two political systems, East and West Germany, and...

North of Neuruppin lies the Ruppiner Schweiz, the smallest “Swiss” area on German soil. Fontane loved the seclusion and enigmatic appeal...

The film follows Circus Hein for a few days. Sandra, Benjamin, Enrico and Jessica are in the circus ring with their parents as clowns and acrobats.

Images of the romantic city and tourist leaflets are burning – the vision of possible destruction.

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

Morbidly beautiful images show the unreasonable working conditions at a rusty factory.

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

Documentary film.

Sixth Wittstock film. This Wittstock film, co-produced by the French broadcaster La Sept, begins in 1990. Koepp shows the consequences of...

This short film depicts Omega, one of Hungary's most successful rock bands, on tour in the GDR.

Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the surroundings of the textile factory. Older gentlemen in a pub reveal that two factories produced...

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

Documentary (in colour) about the first youth meeting (Deutschlandtreffen der Jugend) in East Berlin in 1950.

Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck

Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation