Alfred Struwe

A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly welcomed by an alien race, but are soon suspicious...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Zephi Alșec

Factory workers Yvonne and Evchen have their nose full of married men who appeal to them again and again in their home for a short adventure. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Borgelt

Willi Zubrodt is delegated by his department to a parachuting course at the GST. As he is not very disciplined, has no respect for the instructors...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rennhack

More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish...

Genre: History

Cast: Tadeusz Łomnicki

A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adam Probosz

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonhard Ritter

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helmut Schellhardt

Maria is a record saleswoman by profession. She is lucky to have a job, because the year is 1930 and a major economic crisis has hit the world,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Blume

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to be shot as a spy. This decision is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josef Karlík

Vera Urban is on a ski holiday with her children. Her two admirers - the sailor Winter and Savings Bank leader Martin - travel enthusiastically in...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Micaela Kreißler

A high-rise building in the center of Berlin in the GDR on July 11, 1982. The final match of the soccer World Cup is being broadcast on television....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Corinna Harfouch

In the troubled state of Ocantros, the prime minister is assassinated. Martin Katrup, who is responsible for setting up a large printing plant, is...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Alfred Müller

The main character Otto, the "best man", is a copy of the illustrious Mister Bean. He takes on an apprenticeship as a building-worker, which makes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rennhack

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimír Šmeral

This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Nowicki

Götz von Bredow's elk-leather trousers have their own special meaning: whoever wears them cannot come to any harm. Only they must not be washed....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rolf Hoppe

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Regimantas Adomaitis

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfred Struwe

Inge Karsten receives an unexpected visit from her former student friend Margit from the West. She is even more surprised to hear that she is married...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Annekathrin Bürger

A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Uwe Kockisch

A ship from the GDR fishing fleet is on its way home. The work is done, the hold full of fish. Captain Nipmerow could be satisfied with that, but he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ewa Borowik

A depiction of class conflicts in Germany between 1918 and 1945. The Spartacist Erwin is shot by officers in 1918, and his pregant working-class...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Dittus

Erika and Rüdiger Dörge, both doctors, had had a long happy marriage. One day an incident occurs in the clinic where they both work, which...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angela Brunner

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ulrich Thein

This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno...

Genre: Western

Cast: Gojko Mitić

This quirky episodic comedy weaves together three plotlines centered around the employees of a car garage, with some unexpected fairytale elements to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kurt Böwe

Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get married and have a child. When Sonya wants to go...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katrin Sass

Old Otto Gratzick is a porter at DEFA and a great admirer of Asta Nielsen. When the famous actor Hermann Gschwindner dies shortly before the end of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

A young boy fantasizes his way to school into a battle between cowboys and Indians, where the bad guys want to steal some gold medals. Real events...

Genre: Family

Cast: Frank Träger

Pensioner Erich Zarling loves two things: his daughter Ulrike and his dog sports club, of which he is chairman. But this position is in danger, so he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Dr. Roth, a respected veterinarian and head of a state-owned stud farm, had accepted papers from a man for safekeeping when he was 16 years old,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rolf Ripperger

The World War II. 1944. Nazis staged a cache which stores archival documents of its agents, rescued from the east during the retreat, near a small...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hans-Peter Minetti

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Cast: Alfred Struwe

Prague 1913: The family of newspaper publisher Alexander Reither, traditionally reunited for a New Year's dinner, moves along convoluted and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Schulze

In 1960, farmer Walter Wagemühl learns from the West that his life is coming to an end. In order to pass the farm into loyal hands, he sends his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Boatman Ahrens from Hamburg has a sense of justice when it comes to finding a missing girl. He goes down illegal paths when he breaks into someone...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke

The life of Alexander von Humboldt up to his attempt to climb the Chimborazo in 1802.

Genre: History

Cast: Jan Josef Liefers

The impoverished and homeless orphan girl Anna Barbara sets out in search of the mysterious golden thaler. The rag collector Hans Geiz offers her the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Reiner Heise

The six-part film series tells in impressive stages of the work of important doctors at the internationally renowned Berlin hospital in its medical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernst Meincke

What the trick and illusion artists Lina and Richard Kortmann have to offer their audience is by no means sensational. Their performances are too...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolf Kaiser

Unknown assailants threaten the life of British scientist Dr. Ronald Fergusson. Only by chance does the attempt to shoot him in the street fail....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke