Frank-Otto Schenk

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

Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gerhard Bienert

The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jürgen Zartmann

Every year in the spring the pupils of the 8th grade in the GDR receive the 'Jugendweihe' and are admitted to the circle of adults. This year, Tim is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gertraud Kreissig

Eighteen-year-old Wolfgang has just passed his A-levels and still has a few months to go before he has to start his military service. Instead of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Klaus Brasch

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helmut Schellhardt

A disruption on the Berlin S-Bahn: passengers have an involuntary one-hour layover at Frankfurter Allee S-Bahn station and use the time to take a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Agnes Kraus

In 1923, Judge Böhnsdorf and Inspector Dumke convict 22-year-old Fritz Bondersen of treason, accused of selling military secrets on the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Solveig Müller

Ulf would do anything to win Biggi's heart. Because he wants to impress her, he decides to join the sailing club. Despite the mockery of his friends,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katrin Martin

Ralph grows up in pre-war Dresden as the eldest son of a principled and orderly streetcar conductor. With the rise to power of the Nazis, the war,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Monika Woytowicz

Major Leska, who has proven himself as a troop officer in a tank battalion in complicated maneuvers, is to become an instructor. He sees this as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andreas Schmidt-Schaller

August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach (Fred Düren). Barlach lives in the small town of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred Düren

The Soviet boy Kostya is an enthusiastic radio operator. When fascist German troops occupy his home town, the 13-year-old is conscripted into forced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Kürschner

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Giso Weißbach

Based upon a true story, the movie centers on the German communist Robert, a "Kapo" in a concentration camp. When some Polish children are brought to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin Trettau

Andreas Jungmann has decided to become a professional soldier. He proves himself during his service with the NVA and feels in his element. He and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Ciazynski

The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a socialist German state, learns that he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred Delmare

Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth...

Genre: Family

Cast: Peter Welz

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone von Zglinicki

This film musical is a romantic comedy of mistaken identities set at the 10th World Festival in Berlin. Alexej from Moscow meets and is attracted to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nina Maslova

May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boris Tokarev

Otto Kimmel had a long career as a confectioner. Now he is a pensioner and primarily a grandpa. In his house, where three generations live under one...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Herbert Köfer

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfred Struwe

A child abduction story ordered by a non-custodial uncle with the background of the East/West-German separation.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Frank-Otto Schenk

In 1960, farmer Walter Wagemühl learns from the West that his life is coming to an end. In order to pass the farm into loyal hands, he sends his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Hannes Peters is delighted that he can escape his unloved job as a chef and join the navy. He is overjoyed to be assigned as a hydroacoustician. But...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jürgen Trott