Erich Mirek

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

Eight-year-old Christian lives with his grandparents after the death of his mother. When his grandmother falls ill, grandfather Meschka wants to take...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

In February of 1918, in Boka Kotorska, the greatest uprising of Austrian sailors broke out. Forty warships, with 6.000 sailors, rebelled against the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ulrich Thein

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manfred Krug

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erich Mirek

At a farm-equipment plant, production lags at 89 % and a new, untested combine proves a “failure” in the fields. A promising redesign...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Diez

A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Corinna Harfouch

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katja Paryla

Martin′s and his girlfriend′s Kathrin′s childhood comes to an abrupt end in 1920, when their Mecklenburg village is drawn into the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Ulrich Balko

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Herbert Köfer

Genre: Drama

Cast: Friedo Solter

A commercial artist with a lisp chooses silence, unexpectedly propelling his career. His perceived innovation leads to rapid advancement in an ad...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manja Behrens

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

Germany at the end of World War II: Teacher Grübler lives in a small village in the Ore Mountains together with his 15-year old son Wolfgang. At...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rolf Ludwig

A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.

Genre: Family

Cast: Gerhard Kuhn

Schorsch and Franz are two rascals who are full of mischief and constantly tease both their teachers and their fellow pupils. Vera, the new...

Genre: Family

Cast: Susanne Pleger

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

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

Young Kuttel belongs to a group of working-class children who live in Berlin at the beginning of the 1930s. In the big summer holidays in 1931, the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Hans-Peter Minetti

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

An old ruin serves as the favorite playground for Christine and her friends. It is also the home to a pair of storks that have built their nest...

Genre: Family

Cast: Monika Zähr

Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Graf

DEFA crime film about the smuggling of PVC across the (still open) border from East to West Berlin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Küster

Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If the experiment is successful its a brilliant new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harald Mannl

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Irene Korb

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

1945: Buchenwald concentration camp shortly before liberation: Polish inmate Janowski rescues a small child hidden in a suitcase. A child in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johannes Wieke