Theodor Vogeler

A tailor sends his sons away. They each learn a trade and receive a special gift from their teacher.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Werner Stock

A beautiful princess is betrothed to the prince of a neighboring kingdom, and when the time comes, she sets out with a small entourage to wed him....

Genre: Family

Cast: Rita-Maria Nowotny

The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Esser

Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Tillmann

After many years in Africa, a man returns to his village in East Prussia to marry his intended bride. However, he finds himself drawn to another girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernst von Klipstein

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Angelika Hauff

New teacher Heider takes up his post with great enthusiasm. His unconventional ideas meet with incomprehension and mistrust from the old head teacher...

Genre: Family

Cast: Gunnar Möller

In the middle of the 19th century, almost one in three women who gave birth died of puerperal fever. The Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl Paryla

During the Thirty Years' War, Christine, an orphan, falls in love with the colonel Count Merian. In order to always be with him, she puts on men's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolfgang Lukschy

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gert Fröbe