Simone von Zglinicki

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Trude Bechmann

Hans Röckle is a puppeteer, inventor, blacksmith and more. He is challenged by the Devil (in almost a dozen fancy costumes) who offers him even...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Rolf Hoppe

In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film history of the GDR. In a comprehensive...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Romanus Fuhrmann

Little Sabine has spent her childhood in an orphanage after her parents died in a car accident. When one of the women in charge at the orphanage,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Petra Lämmel

Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a boy on a bike and,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Benno Fürmann

At the textile company, everyone appreciates the work of 18-year-old Susanne, but nobody really considers her a woman—including Lutz, with whom...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone von Zglinicki

A bodyguard who is supposed to protect a world-class tennis player from her violent uncle and ex-manager is confronted with the kidnapping of his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hansa Czypionka

Although at first Ina barely takes any notice of Matti, the two teenagers gradually fall in love at their dance classes and begin their first real...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Simone von Zglinicki

In the GDR, purchasing a car was such a difficult process that many families applied for one years in advance. For example, Gisela secretly orders a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jörg Gudzuhn

A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their friend - the old captain.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kurt Böwe

Elizabeth is an open-minded young person - curious and unbiased. She is sixteen, goes to secondary school and things are really going well, not least...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivian Hanjohr

Jens Lehnert sends his grumpy consultancy partner and key employee Carla Schneider to audit the old-fashioned mint farming of a collective in Saxony....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janina Hartwig

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meret Becker

1831. A village schoolteacher Matthias Spitzbart dreams of the ideal school and writes a textbook on the perfect educational institution. When he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otto Mellies

A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharina Lorenz

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jenny Gröllmann

Author Steffen Teuffel moved from Berlin to sleepy, 'dying' Brandenburg (ex-GDR) small-town Krummenwalde with his wife Beate, who runs the local...

Genre: Family

Cast: Axel Milberg

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Rudnik

A famous journalist wants to adopt a 13 years old orphan boy but their relationship are not perfect.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jaecki Schwarz

Detlev, a single insurance clerk in his 30s, is kept dependent by his loving and caring mother and loses his girlfriend Karin as a result. Grief and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaecki Schwarz

In three episodes about six people, the film takes on the topics of relationships, difficult social engagements , and love in the German Democratic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jaecki Schwarz

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kurt Böwe

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone von Zglinicki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reimar Johannes Baur

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kurt Böwe

Johann Gottfried Schadow is only in his early twenties when he is put in charge of the royal sculptor's workshop in Prussia's capital Berlin. He is...

Genre: History

Cast: Reiner Heise

The 18-year-old construction worker Schultzendorf, known as Schulle, sets off for Berlin from his home town of Ankershagen. He is taken with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jürgen Heinrich

Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Susanne Bormann

Nuclear security expert Katja Wernecke (Ulrike Folkerts) helps cover up a fire in the German nuclear reactor she works in, before the government...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ulrike Folkerts

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone von Zglinicki

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kurt Böwe

A funny story about fifth grader Ottokar who is always ready to fight for justice.

Genre: Family

Cast: Lars Herrmann

On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hermann Beyer