Gisela May

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gisela May

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raimund Schelcher

A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Doris Abeßer

13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy A. Kleinau

1929: Marie Lehning, a farm worker from Warmsdorf on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the fisherman's son Mingo. Both complete an apprenticeship in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stina Ekblad

Young, pretty Milli is passionate about winter sports, and of all things, she wins a vacation trip to the Baltic Sea at her company - in summer, of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricarda Benndorf

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Uwe Friedrichsen

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Küster

Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleeding workers of Paris who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelica Domröse

Frieda and August Walkowiak celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. However, the marriage has been in crisis for some time. August wants to spend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gisela May

A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gisela May

Ed Martin witnesses a murder at the hotel. Although the perpetrator is caught, he had previously taken papers from the victim's bag that prove a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ulrich Thein

Mozglyakov, a young noble playboy, brings great "luck" to the small town of Mordassov: he brings them a prince in the flesh whom he has picked up in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Curt Bois

In the Jim-Crow South, Val Xavier is a bass-playing drifter who retains a wild, compassionate spirit amid neon-lit decay. Nicknamed “Snake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gisela May

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gisela May

The important German wood sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider (born around 1460) is considered to be artistically and socially established. He was a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annekathrin Bürger

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otto Mellies

The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans-Peter Minetti

The starting point of the story is a scandalous affair that took place in West Germany at the end of the 1950s. It began with the unexpected death of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hannjo Hasse

Film by Frank Vogel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johannes Arpe

Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. Péter leaves for home with his wife,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gisela May