Erika Dunkelmann

Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to the West. The initiator is the philistine...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harald Halgardt

Several children find out what's the matter with a wreck offshore, which puts them into jeopardy.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Günther Rettschlag

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...

Genre: History

Cast: Günther Simon

Winter of 1943. Cheerful, shy beginning of a tender love between the electric fitter Paul, who works on the estate on the power poles and the girl...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Peter Friedrichson

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

Shortly after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933, preparations were underway to silence the members of the socialist and...

Genre: History

Cast: Jochen Brockmann

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Schulze

The story of a resistance fighter in the Nazi era: Communist Hans Löning was arrested in 1933, imprisoned in a concentration camp and tortured....

Genre: History

Cast: Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

After their successful May party, now the Lehmann family want to throw a New Year's Eve part with punch. Wilhelm's sons Franz and Paul are brigade...

Genre: Music

Cast: Erich Franz

A man being discussed by two young ladies is wrestling with death. How did it come to this? In the plot of this crime drama, false and real feelings...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hildegard Alex

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ekkehard Schall

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

Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall. Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annekathrin Bürger

August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates mischief in the GDR. After some careless...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ulrich Thein

A story about a group of children in German town of Bahrenburg who are trying to build themselves a swimming pool.

Genre: Family

Cast: Paul Heidemann

The stubborn old skipper Heinrich Borchert refuses to recognize the progress of the new era. Sailing for the DSU is out of the question for him. He...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alfred Maack

During the unloading of the freighter "Florida", West German dock workers discover napalm bombs instead of the specified precision machines - and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy A. Kleinau

Karoline Gluth is approaching forty, has an 18-year-old son who is studying and is therefore independent. She decides to start a new life and says...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Renate Geißler

The authorities expect the case of Friedel Walter, alias "Dr. Mueller," to be a straightforward one: he was working as a doctor without proper...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karla Runkehl

Based on a true story from 1936: Klara Baumann, a working-class woman, communist and mother, flees her German homeland for neighboring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Dunkelmann

The son of a working-class man, Harry Brenner studied medicine at the ABF and quickly made a career as a doctor in Berlin. His lifestyle and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otto Mellies

Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Müller-Fürstenau

Genre: Family

Cast: Erika Dunkelmann

The little island of Laenneken is a place where time seems to stands still. Traditional customs and age-old power relations are still in place and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otmar Richter

October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Schulze

It is the 65th birthday of Wilhelm Lehmann, foreman of a chemical company. All members of the large family are expected. Preparations are also being...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erich Franz

The fisherman's son Christian, called Spinner, has a lively imagination. When he is sailing with his pirate sailboat, he feels like the sailor...

Genre: Family

Cast: Detlef Bierstedt

An American military plane takes six people, who have taken part in a NATO maneuver, from Tripoli to Oslo. Among them are the British Captain Loy and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Drinda

Andreas works as an assistant in his father’s small-town bakery. However, he actually has other plans: As a passionate trumpeter, he wants to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Angela Brunner

The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helga Göring

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: Drama

Cast: Raimund Schelcher

Mauritius Halbermann, nicknamed "Mauts", works as an advertising manager for Gravo-Druck, a state-owned print company. Mauts, a man obsessed with his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Horst Drinda

The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nikolay Eryomenko