Movies

Short film about the GDR state border

Documentary on the former border patrol sergeant Klein. Klein deserted in 1961, defected to the enemy and betrayed state and military secrets. He was...

Documentary about the Fifth Festival of Sorbian Culture 1980 in Bautzen.

An ancient fairy tale tells that Athanga created the world with animals and humans. Since the creatures soon began to quarrel with each other, he...

A princess laments for her treasure. The knights Dick and Schick rush off to fetch it. A little bird joins them and they take it with them and defend...

Thomas Heise documents the everyday life of the "People's Police Force" in Berlin Mitte.

Silhouette animated short about a boy who learns the value of hard work over wishing.

An album of moving illustrations showing the history of communism, from the rise of the first trade unions in the 1820s to the present day...

A consciously modern depiction of working women in East Germany – labourers and managers in a garment factory talk about relationships and...

Martin, the young protagonist of this hybrid documentary interspersed with staged scenes, is afraid of school, his father, and the future in general....

Max and Tüte are super excited about a math-whiz robot at an exhibition. The boys smuggle him out so he can do their math homework. But the...

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to...

A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973. Blending reportage with...

In works like “Guide Dog Ruepel” (1962), Bärbl Bergmann was the first feature film director in the GDR to portray children in their...

A creature bearing the ominous name "Mishap" is hot in pursuit of an unfortunate lumberjack and eventually decides to live with him. It soon gets...

The life stories of four people struggling with alcohol addiction allow for conversations about the apparent "normalcy" of alcohol and the subsequent...

In an enchanted forest, the princely brothers Michael and Andreas get lost and are transformed, by a mountain spirit who jealously guards his...

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the...

Chingachgook, a Mohawk-born Delaware warrior, strives to rescue his wife Wahtawah from the clutches of an enemy camp of Huron. Joined by his trusted...

A report on the work of a reservist collective from a factory of the Guben chemical fiber combine.