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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wolfgang Berghofer

A multi-layered documentary about the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR: Fifty buildings, a thousand rooms, bunkers, its own...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ralf Marschalleck

Böttchers film showcases three young workers who learn how to paint, draw, and make sculptures out of stone. The film generated a storm of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Manfred Krug

The first summarizing film about the path of the class and the common stations in life. But also about the different paths in the profession, in...

Genre: Documentary

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The film is a reportage showing the help of workers from the GDR in the industrial reconstruction of Syria. We witness the friendly relationship...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Erik Veldre

Started in the summer of 1961, even before the Wall was built, the film becomes an explanation after this historical event as to why things can no...

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From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roland Steiner

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Niklaus

A portrait of three friends from the GDR. Dieter, a painter, spent ten years in prison on account of his "aversion to work". Alfred, promoted to the...

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: János Kóbor

Children are introduced to the magical world of cinema in a cheerful and fantastic way; embedded in a turbulent story, they learn about the film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kurt Böwe

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...

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This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Winfried Junge

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helke Misselwitz

Documentary short about the East German Oktoberklub.

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"The Free Orchestra" is a group of young people who have various careers, and get together in their free time to make music. Improvisation and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gui Gust

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Siegfried Müller

A few days after the GDR built the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer commented that this was "an infamous and brutal act against...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Herwart Grosse

Using contemporary artistic representations in words and pictures, the documentary intends to create an overall view of the historical significance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Otto Mellies

The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the history of the USA at that point of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gerhard Scheumann