Movies

A report on the oldest citizen of the GDR at the time, Emma Wagner from Gotha.

This is the second installment in the Disco Film series to feature the Puhdys, a popular East German rock band. Their songs "Sturmvogel" ("Petrel")...

Documentary on the 1000-year-old town of Weimar. The film presents an example of the victory of humanist traditions over nazi brutality.

In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered...

A tailor drives his three sons out of the house because he believes they have maliciously starved his beloved goat. The sons prove themselves abroad...

Young people talk to the camera about their ideas of marriage and plans for their future lives.

Documentary on Bernd Köhlert, a West German mercenary whose death in the Congo caused a sensation

Susanne (17) and Robert (18) want to get married, but because Susanne is still under-aged, she needs parental permission. With twin babies and tight...

Palucca follows the legendary Dresden dancer and dance teacher Gret Palucca (1902–1993) as she introduces her students to dance as an art form....

A part of Earth's population are greedy and power-obsessed. They eat up and destroy everything. All of a sudden the planet Earth decides not to carry...

Documentary on Annette Paduck's literature circle “ Schreibende Schüler”.

Real part: A puppet animation film studio. The director, cameraman, animators and lighting technicians set up a scene in which a streetcar car with...

He is not interested in all the beautiful flowers around him and would give anything for only one star from the sky. And what about the man in the...

Adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella for East German television, produced in 1965/66, not shown until 1972.

Three men shipwrecked on a desolate island are granted a helpful gift by a mermaid, only to misuse it entirely.

East German short documentary