Frank Michelis

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Brahn

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gisela May

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annekathrin Bürger

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Drinda

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelica Domröse

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leon Niemczyk

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christel Bodenstein

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke

19-year old Peter is working to gain practical experience for his planned medical studies. But his life turns into confusion as he unexpectedly comes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jan Bereska

The story of a young, idealistic doctor and his on-the-job training as a rookie surgeon. Dr. Heiner Sommer moves to a small town in the GDR where he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Werner Tietze

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gerhard Bienert

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renate Blume

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke

High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Reusse

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred Mahr

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Dunkelmann

Maria, a young student sees her brother Dieter going to prison for sedition against the state. She starts an affair with Paul, a judge who turns out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelika Waller

Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manja Behrens

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy A. Kleinau

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gunter Schoß

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edwin Marian

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

A Saturday evening dance in the village pub is interrupted when the barn of local farmer Paul Gäbler catches on fire. The farmer himself is soon...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gerry Wolff

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Diez