Paul R. Henker

Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonja Sutter

Two UFA employees travel by car from West Berlin to Potsdam's Sanssouci Palace together with Ministerial Director Schimmelpfennig to persuade...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erich von Dahlen

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Küster

A car factory in the GDR. During a test ride there is a major accident. One driver is dead, another is seriously injured. The investigation reveals:...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Drinda

This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn,...

Genre: History

Cast: Günther Simon

17-year-old Traudel flees the orphanage she has to live in, in order to venture to Berlin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva-Maria Hagen

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anton. When, after the end of the war, the land of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raimund Schelcher

Two young building workers are more interested in girls than their work; complications ensue at home.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hartmut Reck

Having been happily married for ten years, Gerda Wagner, devoted mother and housewife, suddenly gets it into her head that she would like a career as...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lore Frisch

After 1945, land reform forces Old Kraske to become an agricultural worker, but he continues to work on his own, flatly refusing to join any...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Max Reichhoff

In 1523, young Thomas Müntzer arrives with his wife Ottilie in the Thuringian village Allstedt to assume the rectorate. As a follower of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolfgang Stumpf

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Drinda

Research results of enormous value are stolen from the experimental laboratory of a chemical company in the fictitious town of Bärenfurt in the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Christine Laszar

In 1952, former farmhand Erich Kattner arrives in a Mecklenburg village from West Germany to take on a new farming job, which he had originally...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy A. Kleinau

In 1955, Michael Vierkant, a Jew who had emigrated during the Nazi era, returns from abroad to the Federal Republic of Germany to obtain the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raimund Schelcher

The construction of five houses for a workers' housing cooperative has been delayed due to a shortage of workers. It is winter and it is foreseeable...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Horst Drinda

Genre: Family

Cast: Manfred Borges

In a small town, a brigade is working on the construction of a new cultural center. Gerhard loves Karin, the daughter of brigadier Franz, who is not...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helga Piur

Alwin Schmieder, his brother August and friend Otto were the only ones in the village to refuse to join the LPG. They continue to toil on their own,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gerhard Bienert

The soccer team of the company sports association "BSG Hartenfels" is going downhill. New training methods - based on scientific findings - are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Horst Naumann

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wilhelm Koch-Hooge