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Documentary reports on everyday life in a big city, focusing on the window cleaners of Berlin. The narrator loosens up the shots of the window...

Genre: Documentary

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The writer Franz Schmidt reads to two editors from his new romance novel. The two criticize the lack of a problematic portrayal of the joyful life of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rudolf Wessely

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

Genre: Documentary

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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,"...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gerhard Scheumann

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

Genre: Documentary

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The documentary deals with the subject of "big city noise" in a humorous and satirical, but also serious way, using the example of East Berlin,...

Genre: Documentary

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SS officer Walter Krüger talks about his career. Now he is Secretary of the „Kameradschaftsverband I. Panzerkorps der ehemaligen Waffen-SS...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Niklaus

The film’s subtitle identifies it as a “study of the constructive discontent of a composer”. It is a portrait of the pugnacious...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Dessau

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

Genre: Documentary

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Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.

Genre: Documentary

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Using documentary material and the testimony of convicted agents, the film attempts to prove that the West Berlin "Kampfgruppe gegen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gerry Wolff

Nine peasant woodcarvers from Poland, their works, their thoughts, and the unexpected elements in each personal view. They draw their themes from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arno Wyzniewski

An interview with Madame Buchela, a West German clairvoyant.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Niklaus

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roland Steiner

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to...

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christian Grashof

Summer holidays of young pioneers and the report of the pioneer meeting in Dresden in August 1952.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ernst Kahler

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Manfred Krug

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hans-Peter Minetti

The Belgian documentarian Frans Buyens interviewed passers-by in East Berlin and Dresden, factory workers and technical draftswomen at the Warnow...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frans Buyens