Movies

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This...

Von Hamburg bis Stralsund (From Hamburg to Stralsund) (1950) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike. Running at approximately 35...

Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985.

A film about problems in providing the population with housing that meets their needs. Affected citizens and representatives of the responsible state...

The film by Uwe Belz shows Krug in his major roles in films, as a performer as a jazz singer, and as a private person.

Images of the romantic city and tourist leaflets are burning – the vision of possible destruction.

This portrait of East German sculptor and graphic artist Fritz Cremer (1906-1993) shows the artist at work in his studio and some of his art works,...

East German stop-motion animation version of the famous fairy tale, notable for its Beast appearing as an elephant.

Die alte neue Welt (The Old New World) (1977) is an East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The film explores the evolution...

Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).

The history of money goes back to when people decided to settle down. They look for a physical equivalent to exchange goods… Nörgel and...

A mother tells her demanding little boy a story to make him fall asleep.

Rainer Burmeister (director) tells a story about everyday working life of 46 young Mozambican people in the GDR who were employed as contract...

During a football match, three mice kick a few stones that hit a sleeping lion on the head. Then the ball lands in front of him and a mouse rolls...

After the workers’ revolt on June 17th, 1953 this film disappeared in the archives until 1997.

A foray through the Sorbian customs of central Lusatia, made in the GDR. This classic work of documentary filmmaking covers the course of a year, in...

The writer Franz Schmidt reads to two editors from his new romance novel. The two criticize the lack of a problematic portrayal of the joyful life of...