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Egon Eckstein welcomes shy schoolfriend Reinhold Sabel to share his small apartment, only to find Reinhold arriving with heavy luggage and a pending...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Herbert Köfer

Santa Claus, expelled from the Heavenly Council because of his alleged failure, finds work on Earth as a stoker in a children's hospital. His...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jochen Thomas

Ten-year-old Lutz Paschke, son of detective captain Paschke, is an enthusiastic but often overzealous detective. He roams his town with his basset...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alfred Scheid

Based on a true story from 1936: Klara Baumann, a working-class woman, communist and mother, flees her German homeland for neighboring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Dunkelmann

Ernst Triebel, a young doctor from the GDR, meets his childhood sweetheart, whom he thought was dead, on the last day of his stay in Santos. During...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Spitzer

Journalist Daniela Dahn interviews the East-German author Christa Wolf during the German reunification: reflections on history, changing politics,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christa Wolf

Laboratory technician Jutta and factory worker Peter have been a couple since the summer and are enjoying their time together. One day, Jutta...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nina Hagen

Maria and Tatjana met during the Second World War and became friends for life, especially as they had to endure difficult days together during the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Richter

Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Christel Bodenstein

Marcel Schlurfke is not exactly the heartthrob that friends Elke and Gitte are looking for. So they think about how to get rid of this annoying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Richter-Reinick

Between 1817 and 1821, Berlin's court theater director Count Brühl has been fighting desperately for years for a German theater, for German...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Lienert

In spring 1946, Warsaw historian Wojtek arrives in a Polish provincial town to study the Renaissance. He soon becomes entangled in the fierce postwar...

Genre: Family

Cast: Otto Mellies

Compilation film, tracing the political career of Dr. Hans Globke, allegedly a former Nazi, now Secretary of State in West Germany.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Herwart Grosse

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Regina Beyer

The epilogue to the film "The Laughing Man" (1966), which alternates between objectivity and anger, exposes the involvement of the West German...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Siegfried Müller

A little girl who is eagerly awaiting the day she starts school falls ill and misses the big moment. Her disappointment is alleviated by loving...

Genre: Family

Cast: Günter Naumann

Two young boys are trying to organize a wedding of the father of one of them and the mother of the second.

Genre: Family

Cast: Boris Lorbeer

Berlin, 1948: Paralyzed and robbed of her memory, Fleur regains consciousness after a serious fall. The doctor treating her recognizes that her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelica Domröse

Dr. Zacharias is an experienced and demanding woman. She sees her daughter Manuela as the continuation and fulfillment of her own life. She wants her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irma Münch

Professor Wilkers saw the trip to Thailand as a welcome change. But already in Bangkok, the starting point of his research into the origin of the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Leon Niemczyk