Willi Schwabe

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

In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelica Domröse

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Free Anarchist-Revolutionary Section”....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Richter

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

Frank and Kamminke study informatics in Leipzig and have developed a program that enables a computer to automatically find and correct errors in its...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Götz Schubert

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

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

Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. They fall in love with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolf Kaiser

Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 and his rule in the years that followed are transferred to the North American criminal world of the 1930s in a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ekkehard Schall

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helene Weigel

Set during the Thirty Years' War between 1624 and 1636, film tells the story of the sutler Anna Fierling, known as Mother Courage, who tries to make...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helene Weigel

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

In 1930s Berlin, a woman’s life unravels as her unemployed husband succumbs to Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers, while her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonja Sutter

The story of the steel melter Martin Hoff, whose factory delegates him to a drama school, corresponds to the real life of the actor Manfred Krug....

Genre: Music

Cast: Manfred Krug

Despite the fact that production manager Kruse doesn't have the actors or the crew for the job, he recklessly boasts that he could direct a revue...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christel Bodenstein

Günter and Gudrun Piesold are very busy with their careers as a TV comedian and an actress, so Grandma takes care of household chores and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Winfried Glatzeder

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

This is an Italian live action film with Alessandro Tomei as Pinocchio.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alessandro Tommei

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

The military officer Manfred von der Lohe has just been on a training course in the USA. During atomic bomb tests there, he was radioactively...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christine Laszar

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helene Weigel

History teacher and coin collector Karl Schneider wants to track down an ancient coin while on vacation in Bulgaria. When he meets a group of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Manfred Krug

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christel Bodenstein

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

Biographical movie about Julius Robert Mayer (1814-1878), a surgeon and town doctor in Heilbronn, who studied heat for many years and was the first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Stöhr

In 1914 Berlin, bank heiress Leonore Wahl and struggling Munich student Werner Bertin fall passionately in love, defying class and her parents’...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jutta Hoffmann