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People discuss their ideas of the future. In this 2nd episode of the film series, the problem of "beauty" in our current and future ideas is...

A short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears.

A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours...

Citations from love letters and poems written between Karl Marx and his fiancée Jenny von Westphalen during their teenage years are combined...

The “Raging Reporter” Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) was one of the most significant journalists of the 1920s and 30s. He wrote from a...

The filmmaker tells the story of her own grandmother, who died in a home, full of longing for her granddaughter. Being forgotten by sons and...

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...

Portrait of the industrialist Walter Hunger from Frankenberg in Saxony. He left the German Democratic Republic in 1958 with his family and closest...

Absurd attempts to produce an amateur film about an amateur film company. The awards ceremony for the film takes place in a town cinema: 1st Prize...

Portrait of Interflug airline captain Günter Schneider.

Kurt Wans(z)ki has spent his life in psychatric clinics. He is diagnosed as: retarded to the level of early childhood, incapable of learning. Free...

Although mocked by his collegaues, the dean of Salamanca sets off to find the legendary bird Turlipan.

This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the "stars" of a Berlin light bulb factory. What is striking is the...

Documentary about a neck mill in Bulgaria

DEFA documentary about various summer workers in Siberia.

Sculptor Makolies is filmed working on a sculpture in the middle of a quarry in Swiss Saxony. The quarry workers go about their work around him. Both...

Documentary on physicist Max Steenbeck

The documentary portrays the art historian Wilhelm von Bode as a realistic visionary.

Using some unique documents and pictures, this colour film shows the life and work of Martin Luther in the context of his own time and his relevance...